Its not that they are making it easier, Its more a case of a lot of people digging into whats happening to try and resolve there own desires and along the way finding odd quirks that benefit the whole.
Its like a school network admin Vs a school of high schoolers, one side is busy with other things, the other is full of hundreds or thousands of bored people with nothing better to do
So off I go running a incrementing character search on SCPI up to 12 characters because I wanted to find command for Bode plot mode, ended up digging up a lot in the process, didn't find the command and so went on to disassembling the system application to see if there was any way to add it, found more commands in the process and finally found a work around.
Then used some of his finding to try and help someone copy off a file of interest and a linux guru jumped up and thought, "lets try and dump the memory manually with this command some guy has shown us how to use." and here we are today.