Comment by sublinear

Organizing your files sensibly is not necessary to use LFS nor is it a "workaround". It's just a pattern I am suggesting to make life easier regardless of what tools you decide to use. I can't think of a case where organizing your project to fail gracefully is a bad idea.

Git does the responsible thing and lets the user determine how to proceed with the mess they've made.

I must say I'm increasingly suspicious of the hate that git receives these days.