Lol. Monumental. yeah I'd say so for me especially as a linux newb.  I just went to create a wsprdaemon user on the omega and it reported it doesn't have the adduser applet.  It didn't initially even have the low level  applet useradd.  I installed useradd and discovered it is painful to get it to create a new user account properly.  Adduser apparently is just a perl script that drives useradd properly but opkg can't install adduser....