As someone that's been looking into it, it's not just for the Gaggia. It's also for some Silvia models and they have a small list of others that people have gotten it to work for. The list is, unfortunately, on discord and the discord server has some really petty rules and a lot of superiority complexes.
But this implementation of a reduced feature set version of .ini file parsing does not convince me that I should write my own parser instead of using one that implements a more full feature set
> No newlines in keys, values, or section names. Empty values are not allowed. Comments only on their own lines (minus whitespace). Whitespace-insensitive (whitespace at the start of line, end of line, around the “=”, is all ignored). No need for a terminating newline either.
I think it's reasonable that people want to use a parser that has better error handling and gives an idea of where the ini file may have parsing problems than just a barebones implementation such as this provides.
I also think that using a library for parsing instead of writing your own parser does not imply that you are scared of parsing.
I didn't downvote you; I think you make a reasonable, albeit exaggerated, point. I think it's also important to look through the lens that a lot of things linux supports are reverse engineered and that's why they take a long time to implement. This is de facto different with everything being open so I expect support will come faster. There's also the fact that this aligns better with the ideologies of a lot of free software enthusiasts so they may be more likely to work on it.
That's a tiring argument that's reiterated every time teacher pay is involved. Most teachers also don't get the luxury of working 9-5, they have to do additional planning and grading outside of hours. Also, if you want to compare with the private sector, there are teachers in the private sector who make more.
They also complained about pyrex not being durable because they dropped it. My pyrex has lasted 2 decades of use and I think it's an example of a durable product.