Comment by KaiserPro

I don't think thats siloed.

A good File system maintainer is a precious resource. wasting them on running stuff is madness. (I say that as a Devop.) I know a fair amount about running/configuring/tinkering with filesystems. (hell I've bumped into at least 3 XFS bugs, ones that were new to Redhat.) But I would never presume to be able to make a meaningful patch.

Its the same way that I'd not expect the Ext4 maintainer to know how to instrument, metric and monitor a large company's infrastructure.

Almost certainly they would have flung a ticket over the fence, and it was up to politics to make it work.