> 1. Why can't latex-mode not be removed/substituted by auctex?
For technical/administrative/historical reasons.
> 2. What's about reftex? Right now, since auctex provides a mayor
> mode, you can put it in a hook to startup reftex when you open a
> latex file with auctex installed. Would that be a problem, if
> auctex is no longer a «real» mayor mode?
The change would/will introduce breakage. The intention is to minimize
(and fix) as much of it as possible. I suspect that if you provide
a test for AUCTeX's test suite verifying this behavior, then we'll make
sure it keeps working :-)
Stefan
