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The GNU project believes in the community working together by choice to maintain complex systems.
I personally believe that "simple" systems naturally conglomerate into "patched up" complex systems. I point to Unix as my main example. It is natural that systems that were good for one point in time become outdated and patched up as system requirements change over time. There becomes a point where it's probably better to reimagine the systems to account for the current state of requirements. I point to the Plan 9 OS as my main example.