I know a lot of this stuff I archive is trash (even originally, and now badly outdated, to-boot), but it’s interesting trash … for which there is often in fact still not a good replacement, in the official WordPress repository.

This harkens back to the question I proposed where the plugin repository has 50,000 plugins but 25,000 are considered dead, there are still 25,000 to choose from which is still enough to provide ample choice for a given piece of functionality, right? It's interesting to hear that despite there being so many plugins in the repository, there are instances where one plugin fills a niche and one plugin only.