[chrisjshull]

I see a lot of people who like ember-cli, but after the first few minutes I just found it frustrating. Granted, this was a little over a year ago, but at that time if you simply wanted a npm module in your code you had to do all the extra work to wrap it in an ember plugin. IMO, this severely slowed down the ecosystem.

[oneplusone]

As far as I know it has never been required to wrap an NPM module in an add-on. I have used Ember since pre 1.0 and you could have just ember-browserify for the last 3-4 years to pull in an npm module.