Not sure about poetteringisation (of how should this be spelled?)
but take a look at this link:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/

and this
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove (see owners)

and even this
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

Simplification? Heh.

The same thing: why change something that has been working (flawlessly?) for four decades.


My two pennies worth,
Mitt