Magento

Final class on Mage seems like an unnecessary restriction. I can think of a few circumstances in which it may be nice to extend this class, particularly for exploring the code base, or a debug mode. I understand the various classes that call Mage::methods specifically won’t use the child class, but I can see a few circumstances in which a developer might want to extend some methods for their own use (running it through a debug_index.php front controller, for example). Any chance on getting final keyword removed for the release version?

Thanks,
Dylan