The plugin system was literally an internship project, and in that context putting together a working proof of concept for out-of-process plugins which can perf

The plugin system was literally an internship project, and in that context putting together a working proof of concept for out-of-process plugins which can perform simple tasks is a great success. They just never bothering scheduling anyone to work on making the other 90% of a useful plugin API, which makes me wonder if they even realized that they shipped a basic prototype as a headline feature.