Why are Gateway and Workstation not distributed separately?

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unified ova

Example:

Whonix VirtualBox 14.0.1.4.4 - Unified OVA Downloads - Point Release

This is a point release. This release introduces unified ova downloads. Rather than a separate Whonix-Gateway ova and Whonix-Workstation ova download, from now, there is only a single Whonix ova which includes both Whonix virtual machines (VMs), Whonix-Gateway and Whonix-Workstation. This will reduce the steps users are required to apply (one download less / only one instead of two downloads), improve usability, make Whonix downloads more standardized compared to other software downloads, and …