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Until you lose users because implementing that plugin infrastructure slows down your program or prevents certain features from being written easily (either directly due to trade offs in having the infrastructure implemented or indirectly in not wanting to break compatibility with older plugins).

Also as Apple showed, a nice polished product sells and that final polish matters. It's a lot more difficult to do that when you need to deal with an unknown quality like plugins.




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