Integration works when the item or feature can be well associated and provides a good difference to the alternatives, in our case our usual roll our own solutions.
Personally I split oag, guide camera and fw as part of the camera subsystem so the integration points should be in that area, and there's examples of that already out there.
And I do agree that integrated systems are higher maintenance, but that's what we see everywhere. A properly designed system could mitigate failures if thought is given to maintainance and repair. I certainly wouldn't like to see systems that were like our smartphones for example.
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