Great summary, Betsy. I’d like to throw my support behind both an interactive option and a minimal option, as well as better tooling and documentation for adding things you’ve said no to after the fact. While some might think “the list of things installed by default is insane”, it represents my honest and genuine assessment of “what would I need if I started a new application tomorrow?”. I would want, and would use, all the options we’ve included by default. That default, the inclusion of “all the tools”, isn’t likely to change.
But as discussed elsewhere, Rails is a big tent. We have a lot of different usages. It doesn’t bother me in the least that we make it easier to opt out of parts of the default stack. Nobody should ever be forced to use something they don’t want to (but also, as the omakase metaphor implies, it’s worth giving the unagi a second or third try… you might SPRING with joy once you realize that a 3s boot is reduced to 0.3s 
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Let’s make all this happen! We can start it as independent projects. The interactive mode, the minimal mode, the adding-things-back-you-removed options 