Any ideas why Redhat wants to convert vim back to the limitations of the old vi?
I know several distributions install vim-tiny (or its minimal counterpart) as a way to pack as much power as possible in as little disk space as possible. Consider dedicated routers and old machines where disk & RAM are actually tight resources. The assumption is that, if you want to get such a system up and running, and need to edit config files in-situ, you don't want to give up the standard. If you have a beefier machine, you can at least get your system up and running with the minimal version and then install vim-kitchen-sink for actual editing.
And lest you think I'm joking, I've done some Debian installs on machines with 32MB of RAM (I think...it might have been less) where vim-tiny was usable and using vim-full made me groan. It was still usable, but it would occasionally trigger swapping if I didn't take precautions to launch it without certain features.
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