My 5 cents contribution:

There are two points here:

Archiving, or preserving, existing, handy utilities, include files, scattered
all over the internet.

Learning Povray.

The first one will be difficult. If, for instance, the Lohmuller site closes, a
lot of information will be gone. Of course there is archive.org, with its
wayback machine, but then you really have to know where to search.
If all this stuff could be centralized on the povray website, that would be easy
for the users. But of course a maintenance hell for the website people. And who
will decide what goes in, or not? And how to organize it?

The second one, learning Povray, goes for all software. If you see blender for
the first time, you don't have a clue. Moray, or kpovmodeler, if you see a
spreadsheet, or even a web-page for the first time, what do you do?
Povray comes with a good set of sample files, I think the documentation is quite
good, they really help you on your way. And of course, even people who have been
using povray since Napoleon times are sometimes puzzled how to do things.

Cheers
Ton.

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