I’ve got similar experiences about recreate and even the worst part of it, which is failure to recreate. But that story is in the different thread, but highly correlated with everything in this thread.
Personally I see that the only major fallback with current Duplicati. Slow rebuild would be acceptable in disaster recovery situations. But failure shouldn’t be an option.
Everything else is already working well enough that I’m happy about it. But this is the thing which make me sweat at night. Because I could just find any backup to be un-restorable at random after extremely slow database restore process. But I did see from some other thread that the rebuild / recreate task is being improved, which hopefully solves this issue.