Very true, I do want to be able to fetch the most up to date version of these plugins though, and doing this manually is very annoying. And having to maintain a

Very true, I do want to be able to fetch the most up to date version of these plugins though, and doing this manually is very annoying. And having to maintain a private version that I have to constantly update is almost as annoying. I just wish WordPress companies would join 2015 already. So many of them are stuck in the late early 00s. And to think that WP powers more than a fifth of the web.