Minimal installations and choosing --no-reccommends is a different kind of topic. The normal installation (if not choosen otherwise whilst installation) and also standard setting is with recommends. So if a user decides to tailor the system to his needs, yes it is true, it is possible that Myrlyn dosn’t get installed on its system.
Remember the user who claimed unknowingly that Myrlyn seems like malware to him as it was installed automatically on his system? 