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Content Type Hub - It's hard to say I love you

Recently some other developers suggested using content type hub for a client project and it created massive overhead:
  • Added complexity for deployment
  • Lots of errors from content type publishing
  • Lookup fields are not supported and we have to use metadata fields, again.. more overhead.
My suggestions for anyone what to try content type hub:
  • Do NOT use it if there's no requirement to consume content types by multiple web applications
  • Do NOT use it even you need simular content types in different web applications but you need different customization
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