Calibre uses plug-ins to handle lots of things so the use of Kobo Books to handle meta data and cover downloads from Kobo is reasonable. It moves the programming load from the main developers and allows for people to add their own functionality.
From the Kobo Books plug-in first post
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Main Features
Can retrieve title, author, comments, publisher, publication date, series and tags.
Fetches high resolution covers using size defined by "maximum_cover_size" tweak.
The identifier used is "kobo". It will show in the details as "KoboBooks".
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