I'm quite sure the stuff most people find useful in the distro is actually the most likely to be removed in future releases. E.g. YaST keeps getting smaller and smaller in scope; last victim was the Audio applet.
If they kill YaST, they pretty much kill openSUSE. In my opinion that is and always has been the key differentiator of SUSE.
I'm still annoyed that the YaST Font module got removed, while /etc/fonts/local.conf is easy enough to manage myself I liked having the visual confirmation of what I was doing.