they shouldn't be sorry. Developers actively avoided the plugins site for the last few years, as it was nearly useless for finding up-to-date, quality tested and mantained plugins.

>Developers actively avoided the plugins site for the last few years //

There are several comments on the linked page from people, developers even, that say they hung out there daily.

There were usually multiple plugins (of varying quality) sharing the same name, most outdated, no documentation, sometimes no link to a source repo. It was hard to navigate and slow to search. I work with 6 other front-end devs, none used it.

Not to mention that the JQ people apparently decided to leave plugin comments as absolutely undifferentiated blocks of text concatenated without the benefit of CSS. In fact, just this one fact has led me to a belief that JQ people are not actually interested in usability. A lot of people talkin', but nobody knows what's going on.

And painful for those starting with jQuery/plugins before they realize it's better to look elsewhere... :)