Github user vlsi commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/221
>Refactoring was considered not adding any value for the end user.
The problem with adding extra dependencies to core is not "JMeter will get
harder to maintain"
The main problem (from my point of view) is that typical end-users of
JMeter have little to do with Java programming. They have little idea what
"NoSuchMethodError" is, and so on.
So, I think in a long run it makes sense to reduce possibility of running
into "plugin X is not compatible with plugin Y when deployed to JMeter version
Z" kind of errors.
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