I wrote in my reply to the origin thread that the only way to fix base’s issues is to break it up. We need finer-grained libraries to separate the uncontroversial/stable stuff from the controversial/unstable parts, avoid version churn, and give the ecosystem greater ability to experiment while also not breaking old code.
We can then make all the “batteries included” preludes/bases/package-collections for end applications we want, purely with reexport without the friction that arises today, and without coarsening the underlying library ecosystem which would be disastrous.