Use of enable_super_globals()

[gothick]

The third-party client library used to invoke Akismet, tijsverkoyen/Akismet uses $_SERVER quite extensively. This is perfectly reasonable, as far as I can see, but it means I have to wrap the isSpam() call with phpBB's $request object's enable_super_globals()/disable_super_globals(), which doesn't feel that "clean", and is apparently a Bad Thing ("We would not allow something like this in our extensions database".)

On the other hand, tijsverkoyen/Akismet is by far the most popular Composer-enabled Akismet client on Packagist and seems a sensible choice, and I don't want to go forking and altering it just because enable_super_globals() doesn't seem "nice". Is there any better way? Is enable_super_globals() that terrible? I've asked on the phpBB extension developers' forum.