I don't have any special insight to this decision, but

- Its unclear why they merged all of the sudo-* packages into sudo-rs. I wonder if those would have been cases where they benefit everyone for being split out for reuse.

You play to your audience. If someone decides not to use sudo-rs because it's in multiple packages, that may be a bad reason, but they're still not choosing it, and that's a worse world than if they did.

I would probably do the same thing, even though I am very much on the other side of this debate from the zero-dependency folks. The intended audience is probably much more full of folks who do believe that.