Fair case for the other side. A wrapper that is four months behind is still running a model competently, and the features you are missing are mostly single-digit percentage gains.
What you get instead is not spending a Saturday on a flag change. I went direct for a year and back, and the honest reason is that I would rather use the thing than tune it. The split in the post is right though: server direct, interface on top, is the arrangement where you do not have to choose.