I love the engine but why is it so bare bones?

Actually my line of thinking is that if we get useful features implemented now it means time later (keep in mind Ive been saying this since beta) can be better spent on bug fixing, what happens now is that new features are added in sporadically and it doesnt really help stability since there are new features added pretty regularly. In all honesty most of those new features arnt even that useful to me and in terms of plugins are most definitely things that are more easily handled by the game team than engine modifications no matter how simplistic.