In general, many hackers don't know how to code (in SMW) or at most know a couple opcodes and make simple stuff or tweak a few things but are completely helpless on more complex stuff. The resources sections exist for a reason, though a few other resources are only released in
Resources & Tool Release for a variety of reasons and if something doesn't exist yet, you can simply
request what you need (at least as long as the rules permit it) or even ask someone personally if you built some reputation (I myself took some personal ASM request despite my bio mentioning otherwise but this is ultimately the exception, not the rule).
tl;dr The majority of users know at most basic ASM and were lost if it weren't for the resource sections.
