[forgottenpass]

He has dismissed all that as beneath consideration, and he has the One True Vision™ on how Unix should be architected.

I don't see him passing a value judgement on how it should be done, just dismissing a particular criticism as poorly founded. If you look at the difference between the Unix and Linux development models, there is a point. There are a lot of properties to Unix so it's a bad argument to say "not Unixy enough" when you really mean something more along the lines of "components take on too many responsibilities at once and are too tightly coupled."

[digi_owl]

Focusing on the repository is a distraction.

the whole of systemd sits in a single source tree in freedesktop.org. You don't find system-networkd in one tree, udev in another, systemd-init in a third.

In contrast, each part of XFCE, the window manager, the panel, etc, sit as their own source trees within the XFCE repository.