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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5607276" data-attributes="member: 54877">I'm gradually growing more firm in my conviction that a system with options needs to keep the base as simple as possible. That is, options should only add, not subtract. And since "simple" is one of the optios that people frequently want, it has to be the base. Not only does this make learning the system easier on people, it also stops a lot of design holes, cold. Or at least makes such holes a lot harder to miss. (Nothing is perfect.) If Simple Base SB has options 1 - 10, which can be used in many combinations, then there may be a few problems with particular options--or more likely, option combinations. But you can reasonably expect SB to work pretty well by itself, and also with some of the more popular option sets. Fixes to the options won't touch the base. However, if Complex Base CB has options 1 - 10, some of which take things away--then you can expect more combination screwups and a greater likelihood of a pervasive problem running through CB. Perhaps some of the more popular options mask this problem, complicating testing.</blockquote>