Here's a version of the post that I wrote to try and exclude most of the dev-speak jargon:
QuoteThe developer team will be removing most of the functionality in TotalFreedom Mod (the rank system, permissions, etc) and instead using plugins that are specifically meant to substitute those features (luckperms?, network manager, etc). The reason behind the decision is mainly due to TFM being way too complex and entangled for any developer to try and work on without significant amounts of time being put into it, and also because of the numerous performance issues brought on by TFM's inefficient legacy code.
Any functionality which can't be substituted with another plugin will instead be incorporated into a "core-functionality" plugin as needed.
The current version of TFM will continue to be developed under an LTS release (only bug-fixes and exploit patches) until the core plugin is complete, after which TFM will be retired.