Rethinkdb is great software that was really designed with technological goals, one after the other, in mind. I'm a bit surprised to see the company shutting dow

Rethinkdb is great software that was really designed with technological goals, one after the other, in mind. I'm a bit surprised to see the company shutting down. I mean, in some way, it's years they work at the project, but in the final usable form the project is not so old after all... Anyway to make it viable for the project to have a good live as an OSS project, there is to build a big community of core developers, and that's hard, so as a first step what I would do to ensure the viability is to strip-down it as much as possible in order to reduce the codebase of the fundamental part of RethinkDB to a more manageable size/complexity.