Meh. I'm not bothered whether they're merged or not then. All these folders are administered by rpm anyhow.

Uhhhh, more than rpm exists. I fail to see a problem that is solved by merging them. I guess some fresh project manager with nothing to do believes they found some low-hanging fruit to get their name on something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's a waste of time to reinvent this wheel. It will probably make things worse. Many of these ideas come from folks who started with something other than a *nix and are trying to make things feel more like home rather than understand why things are the way they are.