I wasn't involved in that specific implementation decision, so can't say. Speculating personally, it was probably just something that happened for speed/ease -

I wasn't involved in that specific implementation decision, so can't say. Speculating personally, it was probably just something that happened for speed/ease - as opposed to trying to get an apparently abandoned repo rolling again. We did make optimizely/chef-druid open and public though, and while I'm not with Optimizely any more, I'm sure the good folk there would be more than happy to merge back into the original repo if anyone was still maintaining it and wanted that to happen.