Fortunately the recommendation part is often ignored.

I am an amateur developer and I am so glad that some people say "use X" instead of a block of code which is "native" and pure.

In Python this was requests and arrow, in Go it was resty (despite the Go community being extremely toxic in SO). These are fantastic for casual coders.

Answers with expensive code instead of a simple lib are useful too, but only when you gain expertise in the language.