Personally, I don’t expect the Renoise team to embark on something that can be accomplished with Plugin, and I don’t want the resources of a small team like Renoise devoted to something like that.
I have faith in the Renoise team. I trust the Renoise team because I feel they have been basically doing the right thing (and more importantly, not doing the wrong thing) so far.
Calling Renoise a DAW is one magic word, but the reality of them is that the concept is “a rich tracker that can also use plug-ins” and I’m basically perfectly fine with that.
I imagine that a large amount of API additions at lower layers, such as REAPER, would be good to go more in that outsourcing direction in the future, as third-party developers would work for free to create higher layer API groups and other large groups of features I imagine it will be good to go more in that direction in the future.
At the very least, we can see the following moves that will make RenoiseTools development more convenient. Personally I feel it is a perfectly valid strategy.