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I feel like small core sounds great for development but has the potential to produce Drupal releases that satisfy the needs of only big shops/sites (who have developers).

Maybe unhinging certain modules from core will help them flourish, but maybe not. And when other modules are added in at the same time, it puts the whole effort in a different light.

I don’t use CCK, for example, on my site. What if I wanted to start a movement to remove it? While I think CCK sounds great in theory (and I want to use it sometime), it’s simply not needed for my kind of personal site. I have it installed and enabled so it gets counted in stats. How many other “big” modules are like that. I’m sure a lot are enabled by many sites and only really used by the biggest sites (again, those with developers behind them).

Granted, my fictitious effort to try to remove it would never fly, but what if?

I’m not sure how to best explain what I’m feeling as a user, other than that the Drupal community seems to be moving away from what I value. And since I’m not a developer and contributing in other ways than filing occasional issues, I don’t really have a say. I’ll just end up either having software that isn’t a solution or have to add in more/different modules to make my site work.