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> place into an artifact repository

This adds yet another moving part to the system, and another place things can go wrong.

> generated and consumed in CI as part of generating a final build output

This can get quite slow, and on larger projects you have to expend a lot of effort to keep build times reasonable.

Also, if you're serving a library for public consumption, you generally don't want to add the burden of extra build steps for the user to follow before they can use it. If it can all be automated to the point of invisibility to the user that's fine, but often it can't.



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