Questions regarding the history of Botania & Baubles

3TUSK

I was actually digging into the history of Baubles mod, and (inevitably) stumbled on Botania.
Baubles was released in early April of 2014, and Botania adopted Baubles as a dependency just few weeks later.
Now, questions. Honestly speaking, I think some of them may have been answered already, but I am not sure where.

What was the reason of using Baubles directly, instead of, say, write a “Botania-only baubles inventory” (cf. Aether II)?
Out of scale from 0 to 10, to what extent do you think Botania helps to make Baubles a de facto standard in the modded Minecraft scene?
When Azanor quitted modded Minecraft, before Curios popularized, there was a time window in which the fate of Baubles was uncertain. Given that Botania was one of the most prominent user of Baubles mod, was the option of “(the then-VazkiiMods) taking care of Baubles” considered? Why or why not?

williewillus

You'd have to ask @vazkii for details, but Botania at the time had already had a history of using things coming out of the Thaumcraft camp. For example, the wisp and sparkle particles were both from Thaumcraft. Makes sense given vaz's previous mod was Thaumic Tinkerer 😛
Baubles was required for Thaumcraft, which was a larger mod in both eras in which it was present (1.7 and 1.12). So I'm not sure how much marginal influence Botania had here over what Thaumcraft already had.
VM making Baubles releases has happened before, if you search his "Baubles Princess Edition" that was a 1.7(?) fork-and-port of Baubles that vaz made because Azanor was being slow to update. I was the one who made the switch to Curios in 1.13 vs. porting Baubles, because Baubles had a history of sketchy bugs/shaky code fundamentals, and the user experience of Curios was a lot better when I was testing it out.