why not use composer to manage plugins

Hi Elggers. I notice that all of the third party plugins for elgg have to be installed manually, which sometimes can be a pain when deploying to server with such a large file size. Why not use composer to manage plugins considering it is a common practice in many popular PHP framework? 

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