I've dropped this topic on the Maven Dev mailinglist as well[1].The responses are mixed, so I'd prefer to refer to the mailinglist instead of summarizing the responses here.
This will prevent that those opinions are considered my opinions.
Thanks, Robert[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r687bca66bb548d3a13ea665fb7202daf9710564802fa497a4b34d81e%40%3Cdev.maven.apache.org%3E
