Problem/Motivation Color module is unmaintainable and outdated. Its functionality OTOH is crucial for the long tail of very-low-budget projects and the adoption of drupal in this segment, making it important to provide this in core. Proposed resolution I made a POC: CSS Variables.  Theme author can provide a definition configurable parameters (any property, not only colors) via config schema.

Problem/Motivation Drupal core has 80 modules. 10(more ?) modules were added to core in the Drupal 8 cycle. 1(? more) module, place_block, was removed from core in the Drupal 8 cycle MAINTAINERS.txt currently has 39 "?" denoting a subsystem or module that has no maintainer. There are 4 modules, aggregator, tracker, book, forum that were only used by 5% or fewer Drupal sites We have a lack of maintainers and we have a few modules that are used by very few sites.