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So for the ESS Storage Building Blocks we want to install our monitoring software, log collection software (currently splunk but may change over time) which have dependencies on RHEL packages that the ESS Bundle does not ship.
On the ESM Nodes (which also use the ESS bundle) we want to run our home grown management software (mainly python3 but again with a few modules that have dependencies to RHEL packages ESS bundle does not provide), have a working LDAP client connection (which currently is also not possible with the ESS bundle if you want to use SSL), run ISP and probably also use it as CES (NFS) node in smaller clusters. But that is what we are doing today (on our GSS and Lenovo DSS-G clusters). And I don't know what we'll come up with tomorrow and I don't want to file a RFE every time we need another package from the RHEL distribution that you don't ship with the ESS bundle.
Other vendors do this and also IBM has done it in the past, so it should not be that exotic what we request :)
Can you provide more specific information on what you are trying to do with ESS?