Why disparage their work? It's a large engineering effort. It's likely that only a few of the authors wrote a majority of the text in the paper, but it's appr

Why disparage their work? It's a large engineering effort. It's likely that only a few of the authors wrote a majority of the text in the paper, but it's appropriate and worthwhile to give recognition to the folks who did engineering work on the artifact being described as well. It's better to be generous with credit than stingy.