In reply to Peter Shaw.

"The move to custom db tables mean no devs will want to install it or extend it (for a marginal speed benefit)."

It's a significant speed benefit when contacts and transactions are in the many thousands. Moving to custom DB tables also has the benefit that posts / pages meta doesn't get clogged up compared to not using custom tables.

"Integration with jetpack will just add to bloat. Bye bye zero bs crm."

Not necessarily, certain elements of Jetpack are advised if using a CRM (security, backups, etc) plus benefits around things like quicker search (using elastic search).