Same. The main thing I've been liking about it for the slower compiling languages that I mainly work in (rust, android jetpack compose), is that it leaves the build or target directories in place. So instead of git checkout && clean_build_dir, and having to wait to recompile, I can just cd to that dir.

I usually just check out another copy in another directory, say I am working on Foo. foo/ is the dev playground and clean-foo/ for a clean checkout from master.

I know you can do it all with commands but I just find it easier to diff between directories or check how things are in master without touching the dev dir.