I think the pertinent question here is: what do you think 'WSGI was intended to do.'? From the responses here, it seems your answer to that question is a distin

I think the pertinent question here is: what do you think 'WSGI was intended to do.'? From the responses here, it seems your answer to that question is a distinct subset of what WSGI actually intends to do. Which is why Pump offers only a subset of the abilities of, for instance, Werkzeug.