Launching git repeatedly was probably not the best example. But it's hard to think of good examples where launching processes repeatedly is the most performant thing to do, probably because launching processes had been expensive and everyone has learned to do something else (libraries, zygotes, etc). Maybe a different question is: if launching processes were cheap, is there something we would implement as processes instead of libraries?

I can recall just one program that's intentionally not implemented as a library, but I think people have since built a library on top of it:

https://dechifro.org/dcraw/#:~:text=Why%20don%27t%20you%20im...