We (the Drupal community) cannot expect webchick to look even once at anything that isn't truly needed for D7's release at this point.
But i think we cannot tell exportables and other developer experience issues to go to hell for the next year or three either.
changes should increase the ease and incentive of contributing major improvements to core as part of the regular development work.
I endorse that last most strongly.
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