@mickep Well I don't have to, but it's a useful service to the students of the university as a whole, and saves them most of the hassle. I first wrote the class to avoid having to help my own students meet the requirements. Since the requirements are designed by people who have no concept of typography or of any method other than Word, they're not always straightforward to implement in LaTeX, so it helps a lot to have some experience behind it.
@mickep Compared to some institutions, the requirements are not that awful, but the biggest problem is that they are not consistently applied because different staff members seem to have different ways to measure things.