Maybe I’m seeming unappreciative about this tool, and, if so, I apologize.
If you'd stop citing papers for tools you'd stop academic software development.
But the convention of other fields is to recursively cite all software that is loaded by your experimental code. And is strictly required by their journals.
and I am not one to tell other fields what their conventions should be. Especially not when they give more credit.
I am vaguely remembering one of the awk* variants (or something like that) does something similar every time you have to run it, unless ran with some command-line switch (*may not have been awk).