The Fall of the Profile Empire
Salesforce is on the path to removing or reducing the need for Profiles. They are almost there ... Since 1999 the Profile has been the king when settings and permissions are needed. In 2011, the Permission Set was introduced with strong recommendations as a good practice and in the hope that it would help reduce the huge number of profiles per org. In 2019, Permission Set Groups were introduced, not only to group Permission Sets but to relate to functional roles (what was a proposed idea with Permission Sets, is now a point & click configuration). In 2020, the Minimum Access - Salesforce profile was introduced ( Summer'20 ), and in less