I agree here. We are at a release candidate level, and going back to sort of a beta testing level.
It's too much which is why it's taken 5.0 to reach a stable level.
There's some USB and IDE/CDROM modules I would love to see part of the kernel too.
Even if they were only compiled and the modules were secondary addons.
Perhaps the next beta can be a kernel module release only.
+1
Also for older systems with limited RAM, I would prefer to see a streamlined kernel with only the necessities. Maybe, ultimately, two versions, one with a fully featured kernel and one without.