If someone gave you a cook book that covered all sorts of basic meals but it omitted deserts would you complain ?
Listen, I am protestant. I have the apocrypha books in my bible. I have read them. I have also mentored bible studies and I also know many catholics and ex-catholics who have expressed a desire to attend because they never read the bible in any type of guided study before. Its my observation that regular bible study is not a way of life for Catholics and the reading of the apochrapha would be above and beyond the call of duty.
In as much as these were a gift and in as much as the included 90% of the texts that catholics read, what is the big deal ?