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by jasonjmcghee 95 days ago
I get where you're coming from.

But what percentage of users of a document editor would say "don't install pdf stuff on my computer without asking, I don't need to export to pdf"

Installing dependencies for popular features is very much the norm. It's mainstream software.

The same complaint would be made for VSCode and Jetbrains - the most popular IDEs