As you may recall from the last IRC meeting, I'm working on testing and documentation around issue #6137 [0] by removing some features/plugins/libraries and testing/documenting my success.
So far I've had good luck with removing some things (for instance tcpdf), but I've discovered two noteworthy problems.
1) When js/jqplot/ is removed, "Status -> Query statistics" does not fail gracefully, it instead offers to submit a report to the error reporting server.
2) when libraries/gis/ is removed, "Visulize GIS data" does not fail gravefully, instead it gets stuck on saying "Loading..."
In comparison, something that degrades very well is the removal of tcpdf; if the pdf library is missing the export dialog simply doesn't show PDF as an export type.
So my question is what you think we should do about this -- this is clearly beyond the scope of what is normally expected; it's not normal for a user to remove libraries and code, but in order for this feature request to be improved I think the code should handle this better. Should we spend time on this?