Hey Pat! HAHA. Thanks for all the compliments. As for the criticism: spot on, I can see where this would irk you. I want to first say that the "core" itself i

Hey Pat! HAHA. Thanks for all the compliments. As for the criticism: spot on, I can see where this would irk you. I want to first say that the "core" itself is still very slim: you could easily generate a Vagrant installation without a lot of these things. The standard Vagrant distribution, however, is getting more feature packed. That may be a bit pedantic, so let's talk about the standard Vagrant distribution. It is getting larger, but the primary reason is because I think these features are important enough in the "Vagrant vision" to be available out of the box. Additionally, it shows a bigger promise that I care about the stability of those things. The "support" issue is one I am very careful about. Luckily Vagrant core has a lot more committers and we have a few "lieutenants" that cover specific areas very well (for example Salt and Ansible provisioners). As it stands, as the core distribution has grown, I haven't had to spend more time on issues and I still mostly handle the core code. This is largely in part to the fantastic community around Vagrant and the core team that is in place. If I see it shifting otherwise, I'd start to worry.