[jhugo]

> Obviously these modules serve a purpose, otherwise the repositories would not have hundreds-to-thousands of github stars/forks, and people would not be arguing about a license change on the front page of HN.

Have you worked with the modules in question? If you have, please enlighten me to the obvious purpose that they serve. As I pointed out, I've worked with them extensively, and worked on comparable configurations that avoid them, and they create many problems (the wrappers introduce their own churn due to version updates, and often have mistakes in their interpretation of the underlying resources, etc) while solving virtually none. Several orgs I've worked for actually ban these and similar external modules due to these problems.

It's telling that the only substantive reply I received merely points out the number of stars rather than actually explaining why people should use these wrappers.