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Originally Posted by BetterRed
In other words: "calibre isn't a walled garden, it's a closed shop" 
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More that since calibre is open source, the developer is not able to guess which add-ons someone developing a plugin will need. There have been several occasions where help has been given to include new functions and to add aliases in calibre to allow older bits to access functions where the name/functionality has been changed.
Unlike in my career in IT where we could control updates, what software was installed and manage requirements at the domain level, that type of control is not available on a personal computer. We had a fairly homogeneous environment with end users using about 80% Windows, 20% MacOS and a few Linux installs. Even there, we ran into issues where program updates were iffy. The Linux boxes were more or less "managed" by ignoring them.