Yours is the form of solution I was expecting early in the article (though it sounds like you went farther) and I wonder if the author would have ended up with

Yours is the form of solution I was expecting early in the article (though it sounds like you went farther) and I wonder if the author would have ended up with something similar if that library didn't exist. Regarding being reductive though, I think you have to be in this situation. It's a part of a product (not the whole thing) and seems like manual curation could fill in the gaps.