I concur.
It must have a purpose, but I can’t see how it is any better than a plain web page with a list of links. The answer’s got to be somebody is making money out of it somehow. It certainly doesn’t serve my purposes better than a web page - in fact it’s a lot worse as it clutters my machine with a load of hidden files.
If you want a fully documented emonLibCM: EmonLibCM - Version 2.2.2
And an emonTH & emonTx V3.4 that won’t clutter emonCMS with “factory test” numbers each time they start up: Emon devices factory testing transmissions of "zero values" - #11 by Robert.Wall