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It's a matter of encouraging health in a community. A lack of proper resources(which can be everything from documentation, tutorials, guides, libraries, to tools like Ember-CLI) can lead to mistakes in design and part of your community going off on a tangent, which leads to dead branches of development trees.

For example: While React still works for a lot of people who did things in ways advocated early on, the rise of Redux and functional reactive programming has caused the community to move in a direction many library authors weren't aware of when they began.

Is it anyone's fault? No, not really- but taking advantage of stewardship in a community can lead to better tools and resources that help newbies, take some of the work out of your hands, and keep quality for everyone as high as possible.




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