I don’t see how they can be considered “one program to so many things” when it’s 69 different binaries. Yes they’re under the same project, but the same can be said about FreeBSD itself.
They’re designed to work together but as far as I am aware there’s no reason you couldn’t replace individual binaries with different ones, though admittedly I have never done that.
I completely agree with you. It is very baffling to me too. But that is literally the reason parroted the most.
Linux is a monolith that includes a bunch of drivers for things you will never need (on a typical distro, not when you compile your own kernel). It does way more than I need it to, and it most definitely does more than one thing. But of course that's ok in that case
They’re designed to work together but as far as I am aware there’s no reason you couldn’t replace individual binaries with different ones, though admittedly I have never done that.