I think it's worth noting that DVC can be used to track artifacts that have been generated by other tools. For example, you could use MLFlow to run several model experiments, but at the end track the artifacts with DVC. Personally I think that this is the best way to use it.

However I agree that in general it's best for smaller projects and use cases. for example, it still shares the primary deficiency of Make in that it can only track files on the file system, and now things like ensuring a database table has been created (unless you 'touch' your own sentinel files).