Based on past experience, I would guess that what Ovid saw is pretty much par for the course.

Also based on past experience, I would say that bad code which doesn't need modules does nobody a favour in the end.

As an exercise, why don't you go to the repository that you suggested and try to find a script from it that you would happily recommend? Would you care to bet on whether it would pass basic sanity checks when looked at by some of the knowledgable people here?