I started using it but the plugin system is frightening.

No way for me to verify trust and apparently not a proper sandbox is provided.

I would love to use that semantic data plugin but I would prefer if it would be built in.

I'm still not running with any plugins.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of these plugins are open source, no?

Yepp! And I started reading the code but gave up after a while because it's just that much to read and you would need to track changes.

First thing I did was forking it though