Jenkins, like many CI tools, is fine when you are maintaining 1-5 builds. Sure, your artisanal bash script pasted into the shell run of the Jenkins gui is stable and it just works.

When you go beyond that is when everything falls apart. And by fall apart I mean your org starts to grow to a technical ci debt by a thousand cuts until its taking some teams hours to build and ship their code or debug a spaghetti string of code strung together across undocumented boundaries.

Have you used other solutions at all? I used Jenkins for years and a lot of things that that came after that, from industry standards like GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI to more bleeding edge stuff like Earthly and Dagger. Jenkins is the worst of all of them, even if it may do a couple of things “better” than the others