Hi Chad, just a note that these kinds of proposals for design changes
could be better collected on a wiki, where they can be updated/edited,
Then discussed here when we intend to implement them, Most of the
proposals we did for 2.5x were written up on wiki pages.
Eg:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.
With the goal of blender [eventually/one day] having dynamically
loadable modifiers, there would be a long road of steps needed to get
there. Some of them, like making the modifier code base more modular,
appears to be relatively easy (moving the same code [for the most
part] around). Even without