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There are many ways of looking at a personal library.
Some of these are;
a storage facility that allows reading the reading of books,
a workspace where you can read,
a recreational space for experiencing ideas,
and,
a place to explore the categorisation of ideas, knowledge and works containing such.
Many personal libraries would be engaged with in multiple ways. While Calibre doesn't yet offer a plugin that produces a holographic projection of a Victorian upper class private library it does recognise the importance of aesthetics in it's pretty new cover generator, Golden Compass steampunk styled name device and bookcase logo.
To me Calibre would feel more like my personal library (even though lacking high-backed, leather upolstered armchairs and a butler) if more metadata was available. I acknowledge that it is unclear how much use would be made of the extra metadata - this would vary from individual to individual. And may be used intensively only by the rare exception. However unless many people actually have DDC & LCC and other metadata we'll never find how useful it might be for the general user.
I have some small appreciation that "simple is better" as far as metadata goes.
But feel attracted to exploring what my library would be like with lots of meta data. And I could always jettison metadata that was making life too complicated.
I am not arguing that Kovid, or anyone else, should write the necessary code. Rather that I think many Calibre users would use such code if it was readily available so they could experience what more metadata would be like. And some people would be more satisfied with their Calibre library with extra metadata even if they hardly ever used the extra data as their sense of "librariness" would be better met.
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