I think this whole overlay-in-core issue has kind of raised a fairly significant issue to my mind - who exactly is Drupal's target audience?

It seems to me that alot of the changes made by the D7UX team were targeted at a certain demographic - new users, who don't necessarily have a lot of experience running a CMS.

This is fair enough - obviously we want to attract new users. This makes for a strong and vibrant community. However, some of these changes seem to have come at the expense of the more experienced developers and site-builders who work with Drupal all day, every day. Two primary items come to mind:

1. Overlay in core and enabled by default.
2. The Toolbar module

These impede the day-to-day operations for more experienced users. I suspect that these are items that are going to be disabled by most people in my position, and replaced with the Admin Menu module.

I realize that they have shown benefits towards helping new Drupal users accustom themselves to the CMS, so they have value. At the same time, I don't want to have to go out of my way to disable this stuff every time I develop a website or set up a test or development environment.

I wonder if there is call to have a separate, supported install profile for more advanced users that does away with some of these things?

Thoughts?