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I don't know if this hypothesis is correct. But I can see a resolution here. People that don't know what they're doing would be best served having common software installed (I think). Otherwise, without basic application suites, they mistakenly assume that's all there is...and it won't do.
People that do know what they're doing can pretty easily do whatever they want. Ie, they can uninstall stuff (though depending upon their initial cluefulness, they may break their installation badly in the process).
Am I missing something? Solus install is pretty basic and not overly loaded with fluff anyway (imo). I usually have to add only about 5 packages to get pretty much everything I immediately require (though obviously, I keep adding stuff as something comes up). I was thinking yesterday that I needed a disk upgrade (lol). Or maybe I just decrease my windows install and give Solus more of it.
In these days, disk space is cheap and it's better to have more apps I think.