It's the Asahi team using Apple's own cultural proclivities for their benefit. All the single chipsets, and merged functionnality into the SOC are things Apple

It's the Asahi team using Apple's own cultural proclivities for their benefit. All the single chipsets, and merged functionnality into the SOC are things Apple wants for themselves. I can't begin to imagine how cost-effective it must be to skip the NVMe controller chips in all their hardware.