Dries Buytaert, Supreme Drupal Overlord, said today on the development@ mailing list the following:

As indicated earlier, I'm _all_ for incorporating more of CCK and Views into core. Let's make a concentrated effort for that in D7. It doesn't mean that _all_ of CCK/Views needs to be in core, but certainly the stable and critical parts should, IMO.

Barry Jaspan gets the credit for making the proper comments to receive such a reply.