Oh, then I have obviously overlooked how one would be able to determined if a proxy has been blocked and evict it from the pool <https://github.com/rejoiceinhope/scrapy-proxy-pool/blob/b833...> . Or how to use an HTTP cache independent of the "browser" cache (e.g. to allow short-circuiting the actual request if I can prove it is not stale for my needs, which enables recrawls to fix logic bugs or even downloading the actual request-response payloads for making better tests) https://docs.scrapy.org/en/2.11/topics/downloader-middleware...

Unless you meant what I said about "pip install -e && echo glhf" in which case, yes, it's a "simple matter of programming" into a framework that was not designed to be extended