Steps 2 to 10 are creating a plugin, and some later steps are a consequence of creating plugin subprojects, but I'm not sure why that was needed? From their des

Steps 2 to 10 are creating a plugin, and some later steps are a consequence of creating plugin subprojects, but I'm not sure why that was needed? From their description, the plugin just runs some things on the command line. Isn't this the most boring form of code generation?