I guess my problem (and it may just be "my" problem :-) is you calling Taskcard "XP-style" since, to me, it isn't very.

Fair enough :)

From a sufficiently pure and saintly perspective, every deviation looks like rank heresy. It's a bit of a balancing act, and I hope in the end to give everyone the tools they need. I hope that XP folks can use Taskcard and like it, ignoring the features they don't want or need. I may even make an option to turn off every feature that isn't strict XP:

But a lot of the features that aren't XP are often asked for by users, and one explicit goal is to be a light project-management framework.