It was never even considered that this would be a complete implementation. The goal was always to just implement the minimum requirements to get Gnome working.

It was never even considered that this would be a complete implementation. The goal was always to just implement the minimum requirements to get Gnome working. And as far as I know they never even completed that work. They implemented some small subset of there original daemons because the project quickly blew up into a major amount of work.