List feeds as alternative and point out differences?

Agreed.

CSV Importer looks appealing out of the box with its extremely minimal interface. However, you quickly run into issues like:
* What do you do if something goes wrong?
* There should be validation before the import starts
* What do I do if something went wrong, but I don't have access to dblog, or the site uses syslog?
* How can I roll back an import?
* How can I find which content is imported, and which was created by hand?
* How can I do minimal processing of the source data before it's imported?
* How can I control what happens if there's an ID collision, or dupe?
* How do I deal with referenced content?
* etc.

Feeds module has all of these issues already sorted out.

In short, CSV Importer requires you to do a lot of manipulation with your source data, and doesn't provide a lot of feedback or follow-up. Maybe that's fine if you've got spreadsheet skills, and have the ability to decipher Drupal error logs. But otherwise, Feeds is probably the better choice.

Maybe it's worthwhile to consider even going a step further and retiring the module in favour of Feeds.

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