1988 "An Overview of Modular Smalltalk"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/62084.62095

A Smalltalk with all reflexivity removed just sounds pointless, no?

Interesting. Shows how aware they were of these 2025 criticisms, way back in the 80s (which shows how much of an oversimplification these criticisms are of the real situation).

You probably already know about this, but in case you didn't, there is 1 project which adds modules to cuis Smalltalk:

http://haver.klix.ch/index.html