I think this gets into the more philosophical part of the debate like with systemd, where it seems like it could be argued that the separation is better—or not—

I think this gets into the more philosophical part of the debate like with systemd, where it seems like it could be argued that the separation is better—or not—depending on your needs. And for my own needs, I typically favor the security of not throwing too much complexity on top of my storage system (if it would be impossible for me to recover something without relying on a ton of magic I can't fully understand, I'd rather not use it in production).