[danieloaks]

For what it's worth, there's been a bunch of work around backlogs (to simplify bouncers, though if more niche IRCds wanted to incorporate it natively that'd work too). CTCP isn't great, but the simplified CTCP I-D improves things for clients. DCC I'm documenting, hoping we can replace it with something more appropriate and/or extend DCC as it currently exists in a backwards-compatible way (there's a loooot of debate and discussion on DCC in the v3 WG. once we fix up a bunch of misc protocol stuff it's definitely something we'll approach).

For sure, simplicity is better than complexity. A fair amount of the v3 work aims to simplify things that are already done in a bunch of vendor-specific ways and bring them all under one clean, well-specified roof. Always happy for extra help there :)