That's not entirely true, because someone had to set Jenkins up and has to maintain it, but once things are rolling, it hardly needs any input.

By lack of proper caching - I mean reusing a volume (or similar). They do have an approach where they bundle up some files and throw them on S3, but that can actually take more time than re-downloading them. Not much of a cache - which is important for both Docker and large Java builds.

Supposedly the v2 should fix that, but I've been waiting forever to get my beta invite.

Swapping to Jenkins allowed me to choose faster hardware, and optimize our build a bit better. Trying to get Blue Ocean to work right, but to be honest it's a supreme PITA - there seem to be bugs/undocumented workarounds in the github authorization side. Once that's up though, it _ought_ to work better.

Jenkins' usability issues are most of what's allowed these other products to become popular. Hopefully they'll focus on that a lot more, but past performance would suggest they won't. If I wasn't so lazy, I would pitch in myself :)