- It does automatically scan all recipes ingame and therefore knows all of them without relying on plugins or other stuff. Just hit G and you get crafting recipes for all mods immediately. Hit G while hovering over an item and you get only those for that item.
Uhhm NEI doesnt need Plugins for that too. Also some Mods have their NEI-Plugins integrated, so one doesn't have to wait for Craftguide to update.
- In addition the lack of an API also means that you do not need to wait for others to update their plugins every time the game updates.
I doubt you can read IC²-Crafting-Recipes and Redpower-Sawing properly with it, as they add another Recipe System. Also I seriously doubt the lack of an API is a good thing at all.
- It does not contain the cheat modes, which many might like if they actually try to play "legit". There is always "/gamemode 1" to enter creative mode if you actually need to cheat (and this is usually better sorted than NEI)
NEI uses "/gamemode = 1" to enable Creative and otherwise only uses Gamecommands of VanillaMC to cheat in Items (and then adds the NBT for said Item). Also you have to go into the options to enable cheats for noncheaty Worlds.
Also you can cheat in vanilla MC without Creative, so it's your decision if you wanna Cheat or not, as you can set that on Worldcreation.
- Recipes are displayed much cleaner and better arranged. You can even resize the window that display the recipes to have to display up to as many recipes as fit on your screen.
Well, that with the Size is right.
- It does remember the last reciped you looked up. Just went back to the crafting table and forgot how the recipe looked like? Hit G and it will be displayed again.
If you look Recipes up using the Search function of NEI, then you can do that by just clicking the needed Item for that, and you see all the correspondent Recipes, and are also able to show a holographic Display ON YOUR CRAFTINGTABLE, where you can see the Recipe.
After having to use NEI for a few days when 1.4.6 came out, I am so happy to be able to return to Craft Guide after that (imo) horrible experience. It is very clear how much more polished Craft Guide is over NEI, everything just works smoother and as you would expect it in contrast to the many minor quirks of NEI.
You haven't tested the good Features of NEI, and also didnt test, if the Cheat Mode can be disabled in the Config. Basically your opinion is basing on missing Information and therefor your Advertisement is not very effective at all.
Edit: This is misplaced, one shouldnt even be able to Post in this Forum-Section AT ALL. This belongs either to Addon Discoussion or Off-Topic.