That's the problem with EW products... You're stuck with them once you bite.
Now obviously, we're talking sample libraries so that shouldn't be so strange, but Play is an iLok-registered separate plugin, and a lot worse than Kontakt. If the samples are fine, you're still stuck with the plugin if it doesn't work for you.
EW samples are great, but these days the competition has more than caught up, and the whole sample-based scene more or less revolves around NI Kontakt... The amount of great 3rd party libraries is MASSIVE.