(No Nonsense dev here)

Thanks for the great review! I'm pretty excited about this plugin. I had never bothered to create something like this AS a plugin, because I had a custom starter theme I used for all of my clients in which I had already stuck most of this functionality. But I've been moving away from using that starter theme — long story — and I realized that I needed to encapsulate all of these handy features in a plugin for myself.

I'm pleased to see the positive response it's getting, and yes I dream of this being the "deactivation plugin to end all deactivation plugins"… so please offer suggestions for new features you'd like to see! (The WordPress support forums are the best place for that. I'll see them for sure.)

Version 1.4.0 is out now, with a bunch of new features including the ability to selectively remove a bunch of the link tags WP sticks in the head of every page.