Ah, I see. I didn't understand you were just voicing a concern.

The require() idea for utils is tricky. We were having issues with different versions of node looking in different places for esformatter. We're running this using grunt-esformatter, which has esformatter as a dependency. because esformatter was in node_modules under grunt-esformatter, and not at the root, some of our devs' installs of node were finding it, and some were not. The fail-proof solution was to add it to a context when calling the plugin[method].