Why was the plugins menu hidden in v5?

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reviewing the v5 plugin-menu behavior and the Settings.json entry %AppData%\Subtitle Edit\Settings.json, especially ShowPluginsMenu. Trace why the menu is hidden and document the reason and the setting's expected behavior so users can find and enable the plugin menu.

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Description

I couldn't figure out why my custom plugin wasn't showing up. I had to go down a wild goose chase before finding learning that the issue was
"ShowPluginsMenu": false
in '%AppData%\Subtitle Edit\Settings.json'.

I'm happy that I got this figured out, but would like to know why it was hidden in the first place?

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