I work on the project and until geohot's recent talk this tool was used (afaict) by a small segment of the CTF community and so we were more focused on core dev

I work on the project and until geohot's recent talk this tool was used (afaict) by a small segment of the CTF community and so we were more focused on core development issues. We can appreciate the desire to have a cleaner and safer install experience, so we'll make sure to take a look at that. Hopefully you can reserve your judgment until it's addressed.