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You have the resources to maintain these features in the core, but not as extensions? :S

We do not have the resources to pull the given features out of their tight integration in the core and move them into extensions. Doing so would mean a significant amount of work in that alone, but also in ...

I think the Purge/delete data arrow is backwards

I agree that in general, a more flexible and smaller core package is better and that we could really remove a lot and put them into extensions. The only issue is we're not properly positioned to maintain those extensions and I wouldn't be for removing features most of the time if they're not ...

Which code are you thinking may need total replacing or modification?
For example, my ABBC3 bbcode extension, needs to completely replace the core's bbcode posting buttons template code with new template code. I had to do it using CSS instead, but that's not ideal as the old template code is still ...

Speaking of CMS systems, we have a poll open for the next official extension for phpBB to be written by the Extension Development Team and "Pages" (will probably be similar to what WordPress does for pages) is an option. ;)
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2252451

Good ...

Which code are you thinking may need total replacing or modification?

Unfortunately it's just not going to work for you then.

This may be a bad idea for DB compatibility. YYYY-MM-DD is the default for all AFAIK, but it may not necessarily be that way on the DB that the user is attempting to install phpBB.

I think we would at least want some functionality added to the DBAL for handling dates if we do something like this ...

alter_block_array is probably what you're looking for.

We already run all of our test suite against 5.6 and do not have any errors, but manual testing wouldn't hurt.