General Plugin Problems Question

Over and over again I run into problems with plugins, google around, look here on the forum, and the general answer is always ‘remove your platforms, remove your plugins, then re-install everything’. Here is one example thread of this, but I have seen several:

I have the following questions for the community, and/or am interested in some discussion on the following topics:

  1. For those of you that have been building many cordova apps, is this just something you have to do repeatedly when you have plugins, and have you just accepted this process? It can be burdensome when plugins might each have their own config process as well and you have to try and re-remember how you installed each plugin and what it needed.

  2. Does anyone actually understand the underlying problem? It’s a little disconcerting to say the least.

Thanks