> they just ask that package authors should not be burdened with even more work the more their creation becomes popular, and that the burden should be on users

> they just ask that package authors should not be burdened with even more work the more their creation becomes popular, and that the burden should be on users who care about it... Yes, the "having the cake" would be the ability to publish code to pypi and the "eating it too" would be the abdication of responsibility to abide pypi policy.