as it says on the tin, why does this mod depend on Periodic Madness?

Chronological ledger unclear—unexamined artifact of unknown resolutory effort yet persisting across timeline boundaries.
Crumble: perplexing puzzles born of cookies.

Can you please stop talking like a thesaurus?

i prefer the term avant-garde droning, but yeah an actual response would be nice instead of verbal gymnastics

The dog WOOFED placing the stick at the farmers feet—"Good dog" he said, without picking up the stick.
Grrr CHOMP the dog bit the farmers hand—tonight its food bowl is empty

Translation of both comments, as far as I can tell:

"Chronological ledger unclear" > Not sure when this issue popped up
"Unexamined artifact of unknown resolutory effort yet persisting across timeline boundaries" > This issue is a side effect of an attempted bugfix (the exact bug that was being fixed is not clear), and wasn't removed once the bugfix was done even if the dependency was removed
"Crumble: perplexing puzzles born of cookies" > Should be fixed if nothing else goes wrong, this is a big mod

"The dog WOOFED placing the stick at the farmer's feet - 'Good dog', he said, without picking up the stick" > This bug was acknowledged, and you're being thanked for reporting this, even if it looks like ARG is not currently working on the issue.
"Grrr CHOMP the dog bit the farmers hand - tonight its food bowl is empty" > ARG is annoyed that you're trying to hinder their fun, and points out that this is not how you make friends / get things done

Either way as of the update 18 hours ago, it is now an optional dependency, so issue is fixed

my apologies, i should have said "optionally depended on PM" - that is my bad for not explaining myself properly, it was super late at night when i sent the original message. i was mainly curious because PM is also being optionally depended on by actual ESI, and when i asked them IIRC it was a "idk", and since this mod did the same super recently i was intrigued to see if something had changed.
(and if it was a bugfix, i am even more curious what original ESI was doing; especially when the creator (not arighetousgod, to be specific) calls it "adding more to add more" :] )