Having to write an own abstraction layer as a perl script that often stops working certainly is more likely to introduce bugs than having a reliable dbus api. S

Having to write an own abstraction layer as a perl script that often stops working certainly is more likely to introduce bugs than having a reliable dbus api. Spending the time needed instead for working on bugs that are actually reported by users is more useful. The developers only have a finite amount of time, either they use it to move forward or they use it to try to support every obscure system.