Well, I agree it’s very confusing, and that’s why we wish to fix it 
My advice was based on the assumption that you weren’t using native extensions (since it’s fairly new, and not everyone knows abuot it etc). The other’s advice was presumably because they’ve missed this fact as well.
Currently, the native extension feature is in alpha mode, it doe not support all platforms yet (Linux is missing). And once it does, I’d consider it in beta mode, where we need to do a lot of polish for it to work seamlessly for everyone.
I’m really sorry for the confusion, and I hope we can add the missing features for you soon.