In Pd-extended 0.41.4 and newer, and with libdirs, the help patches should be found when using namespace prefixes. They are in all the tests I've done.
As for loading by default, I personally think no libraries should be loaded by default. We just need to figure out a transition plan.
.hc
Could it be that mine is having issues because I've got Gem library loaded at startup?
Also, has the problem with [>~ ] and similar objects using special characters been fixed in 0.42.5 (IIRC 0.41.4 had issues with these so you had to invoke those objects using hex ascii values).
Ico