True, I felt it was fitting for someone claiming someone else is what they are, but I agree your take isn’t insane.

Pot meet kettle.

700 bucks for a wheel is kinda mid tier, I say this with a 300 buck logi wheel.

Starts getting pricing when the drive motor alone is 1000 -2000 see fanatec

Your git solution still has all of these issues, as you need the git server to be alive, for number 3 use something like rsync so you keep a local copy that is backed up if you are concerned about the file share being offline.