You wait until you see some of the goodies under the hood like edit-free plugins :D
I should add, this site runs with several plugins, not that you'd know it offhand. Currently:
* Active members in topic
* Improved Attachments Upload
* User Mentions (the @ user thing, yes that's a *plugin* for the notifications system, which was originally itself a plugin!)
* Old URLs (for redirection of media and feed URLs)
* Personal Message flash (the one that makes the envelope icon flash when you have a new PM)
* Pie Polls (displays the result of votes as a pie chart)
* The skin selector widget in the sidebar
* Users online today
* The revision number in the footer
And none of those requires edits to anything.