I wholeheartedly support eliminating the stripper. It's an unnecessary step that complicates understanding and maintaining the distribution package. And to an even greater degree it obfuscates code that users (who have no interest in the arcana of maintenance) may want to consult to unravel fine points or bugs in macro packages. The only argument for stripping is a supposed efficiency gain, which I suspect is too minute to matter.
But the stripper should not be dropped solely--or even partly--
