> How does consolidating functionality and control into one piece of software increase efficiency and maintainability? Because people working on components tha

> How does consolidating functionality and control into one piece of software increase efficiency and maintainability? Because people working on components that interact with each other are working in the same project now. They see each others commits. They see each others question on the mailing list. etc. Let me ask the reverse question: How would this be improved by splitting systemd into independent projects?