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wget/curl as by far a last resort in this context, as unfortunately none of the companies I enquired care the least about this stuff.

It's not like these wget operations would happen in production, they would happen at scaffold time. But let's not bring this into the realm of whether I know what I'm doing or not.

Most of these plugins provide insular services in and of themselves (i.e. no code in the rest of the project relies on them for anything) so the only way the would break a project is by screwing up with the core software it self, i.e. WordPress.

Anyways - trust me I'd sign for a composer deal this moment, but if I can get a wget/curl url, an api endpoint or anything else over having to go through several webpages and downloading a zip file for every single plugin for every single new project I'll take that deal for the time being.