As much as I hate monkeypatching as a design principle... and I do!... it does make it much more effective to have a highly extensible scaffolding that doesn't

As much as I hate monkeypatching as a design principle... and I do!... it does make it much more effective to have a highly extensible scaffolding that doesn't have to include everything in the scaffolding itself, but can plug in very sophisticated things to the base scaffolding later with a simple import statement. My personal opinion is that the disadvantages of this approach still far, far outweigh the advantages... but let it not be said I don't recognize that there are some advantages to it even so. :)