The compile-time choice makes sense for a gateway: plugins sit in the hot path and often need database or queue access, which is awkward to expose through a WASM sandbox. The cost is the workflow verdverm points out: there is no prebuilt image to just pull and run. Do you plan to publish an official build with the default plugin set, for people who don't need custom plugins?

We do have an official build on GitHub Releases with first-party plugins built in.