You're right. But the I was trying to make is that if something requires
desing-considerations for a clean solution, then it can be difficult to
find "small useful solutions", which together gets you all the way.
I'm not in a position to evaluate whether this is the case, since I've
not read the source.
I just wanted to make it possible to "do it right", if you conclude that
the cleanest way to move forward would be changing some fundamental
design. (even if the feature which caused that conclussion was minor).
... and for people to sponsor such activity together.