Relevant to both the overall issue of project direction *and* the specific one about Sage-as-distribution, I would just add keeping in mind the Sage mission (at least, as it currently stands):
Mission: *Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab*. For those who may not have actively followed this thread: discussion on a possible new mission at https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/36827 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/16a54eb6-4677-400c-ba97-b17b8234833dn%40googlegroups.com.
