Hi Sean,
I think this makes great sense for the project. I don't yet understand what it means for an enterprise like Rasterio's PyPI wheels.
I'd say it probably changes nothing. The RFC just postpones the time where the plugins are loaded, but the fact that they are dlopen()'ed (early or late) probably makes them non discoverable by delocate, since libgdal doesn't link to them in a way that is advertised in its shared library metadata. If your plan is to still have a rasterio wheel with a monolithic GDAL, then you don't need to build GDAL drivers as plugins and this RFC doesn't change anything to the status quo.
I'm not familiar at all with the wheel Python packaging tools, but if you'd want to have GDAL plugins in separate package(s) then you'd need to have a way of having the gdal_XXX.so / ogr_XXX.so be put in some known location that can be advertized to libgdal core with GDAL_DRIVER_PATH.
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