It's still useful for auto-updating, preparing scripts for upload or querying version-information directly into columns. The update/sync mechanism could be in better shape that's true.
In the "SW in progress" thread somewhere above, is a more recent version, the forum update is not why SW got problems, it's rather some https/ssl version thing in windows. I fixed it with a KB-package for my older Win7 setups iirc, not sure how Win10 does yet. See my post from april some posts above, the "Modified" column alone is worth having.
I informed about negative aspects of adding "==SCRIPT RESOURCES" into scripts at the time this feature was born (the post is malformed due to forum update): DO12 - dialog resources
Jon helped out and added support for external resources, which helps regarding broken syntax coloring and failing code formatters in external editors (which is what you use if you edit enhanced scripts). Inline resources still seem very useful, it's unfortunate they ended like that! o)