I guess my confusion is your initial statement "Lets not customize it then" followed by you proposing fully customized installs, and I'm not sure if I missed yo

I guess my confusion is your initial statement "Lets not customize it then" followed by you proposing fully customized installs, and I'm not sure if I missed your point. I only brought up trusted vendors because it seemed that you also want repositories of customization scripts, and I don't disagree, but it shifts the trust from the people making your operating system to you reviewing a bunch of scripts to get the system you want. I'm making a point that people don't want that at all. That will absolutely cause analysis paralysis, there would be too many possibilities, and it would continue this idea that Linux is hard and elitist when it really shouldn't have to be that way.