The most common implementation here is a panel in the garage, installed as soon as the garage is dried in with a single GFCI receptacle that becomes the temporary service and construction power, maybe also serving the house coming out of the ground next door too. Then once they start the electrical rough, a ceiling GDO outlet, lights etc get put in. Some years ago it would come off of a general lighting circuit and a bit later (08?) with a GFCI receptacle once they eliminated the exception for receptacles you couldn't reach. The accessibility requirement (11?) has probably changed that practice again. I think the garage is one place where the cycle is easiest to detect since things keep changing.
I suspect this latest requirement will get you another receptacle on the opposite wall from the panel (in a 2 car) and all of it will come off the load side of the existing GFCI.
Throw the Laundry hookups in there and you get another 20a circuit so there should not be a shortage of places for people to plug things in. This 14 change does seem to eliminate poking a hole in the wall and putting the outside receptacle on the "garage" circuit. Then you have that jelly jar. Is that part of the garage? How about an outside light over the overhead door?

We are still on the 11 so this is new for us.


Greg Fretwell