@drak I think you have another definition for the documentation than we have :) The Quick Tour fully uses the SE, you can't follow it without using the SE. The book and cookbook chapters are written for everyone, but heavily based on the SE and the components chapters are talking about using specific components outside of a Symfony scope. Are you sure you are not confusing cookbook and component chapters?

To give you some examples, Assetic and Monolog doesn't come in when installing Symfony. They only come in when installing the SE. However, we never document how to install and register those bundle into your project, as we based those articles on the SE.

The bundles section is completely based on the SE. It talks about removing the AcmeDemoBundle, which only comes in when installing the SE. It also talks about overriding files by using `app/Resources`, well how can we base our docs more on the SE? :)

Configuration, "How to override Symfony's Default Directory Structure". The Default Directory Structure, we mean the one that comes in by using the SE. 

Workflow, here we tell which files of the SE you should put in the `.gitignore` file and how you should handle the `parameters.yml` and `parameters.yml.dist` file, those are fully based on the SE.