It a question of what you put in priority because lots of gears are only sounding bundled in a combo. Complete solutions are sometimes easier and offer a better workflow but particular gears need to be in a system to get the right convertion and the benefit of the interfaces.
We learned about this type of stuff in our computer engineering courses (but for mainly EM frequencies), friggin interesting as hell.
I like this guy, he really knows what he's talking about .