Please don't do a DConf 2018, consider alternatives

[ShadoLight]

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However constructive your alternate proposals are, I suspect 
people are misreading your title (and it is easy to assume, just 
from the OP title, that you actually want to get 'get rid of' 
DConf, rather than just 'modify' and 'improve' DConf.

Personally I feel there is a cognitive dissonance between your 
title and what you actually wrote. Maybe, since the people who so 
far responded seem really vested in the benefits of DConf.. there 
might be a bit of knee jerking going on here.