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"It seems native Git is better at compressing/deduplicating data than Git-LFS is"

This. The more I have dug into LFS the less I have liked it. Now that you can do this with git, I think LFS is totally unnecessary:

git clone --filter=blob:none

Can you expand on this more? I was going to be spinning up git-lfs for a new project (lots of image, video, 3d assets, etc), and am curious how this relates.

Though at the very least, i like that with lfs i can still use Github for source control and remote storage for lfs. Github isn't exactly cheap for large storage, and i imagine with what you're proposing i wouldn't be able to use github and avoid incurring larger storage costs from them?

No, you wouldn't be able to store your large files separately this way.

Check out git-annex as an alternative to LFS for storing large files separately. It has been around longer, and doesn't require a proprietary server component.