Drupal 8 and 9 vanilla platform

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The thing I liked the most about BOA is the inclusion of an optimized core and centralized base for building websites.

I am not sure I quite understood why Drupal 8 vanilla is not included and distributions are? There was an issue about soft linking, but I see four distributions.

Even more, there seems that there will be vanilla Drupal 9 (hopefully sooner than 9.1.0) which makes lack of D8 platforms even more strange?

Of course, we can add ourselves but that does not match enhancements offered by D7 an D6.

 @ Drupal 9

 Drupal 9.0.0 ----------------- https://drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.0.0
 Thunder 4.5 ------------------ https://drupal.org/project/thunder

 @ Drupal 8

 Lightning 5.0.1 -------------- https://drupal.org/project/lightning
 Opigno LMS 2.16 -------------- https://drupal.org/project/opigno_lms
 Social 9.2 ------------------- https://drupal.org/project/social
 Varbase 8.6 ------------------ https://drupal.org/project/varbase

1. Q: Will there be optimized Drupal 8 dev, stage, prod as it was with D7?
2. Q: Will there be optimized Drupal 9 dev, stage, prod as it was with D7?