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So, it has been an interesting journey, but time to remove git-lfs. Here follows a summary of the approach I used to safely remove git-lfs,

commit & push everything
create a branch, something like fix/remove-lfs
remove hooks git lfs uninstall
remove lfs stuff from .gitattributes (open file, delete content - don't delete the file!)
list all lfs files, git lfs ls-files
run the commands

git lfs untrack '<pattern>' (in my case, all files "*.*")

git add --renormalize .

git commit -m 'Restore file contents that were previously in LFS'

run a git status and make sure all the files were added properly
commit everything

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