BOM management
Three files with similar names and nobody sure which one matches the revision that shipped.
Use cases
None of these is a new problem. What changes is that they stop being solved with memory, shared drives and whoever happens to remember.
Three files with similar names and nobody sure which one matches the revision that shipped.
The same chip described three different ways because every project entered it separately.
Datasheets, Gerbers, schematics and reports living in folders separate from the product they describe.
Another run of a seven-year-old board, or a chip that has gone out of production.