QUESTION How about a specific components section for each page

[Bigin]

There is no configuration, you just click add page component on a page.

IM Extra Fields have not a single line of configuration code. You just need to create a single category and a single field for it that's all.

It does exactly what it says, you install it, goto page click 1 button.

IM Extra Fields does the same, you go to the page select your category and save.

I don't really see why people always have problems with people creating small simple plugin that do one thing, sometimes you only want 1 thing. I have 20 plugins in my install that do 1 thing that I create as needed, this plugin replaces about 5 of them.

I have no problems with people creating plugins, I only wonder why it is necessary to re-inventing the wheel. But I have real problems with people that say something of which they have no idea.

extra plugins is overkill for these situations, but suitable for maybe 2 of my other use cases instead for example.

I prefer single use plugins they can be more focused and light weight since they are loaded on every page load.

The plugin is less than 100 lines of code for example

I disagree, nothing of it is true! The fact that they auto-loaded on every page whether or not it is necessary, make them NOT efficient, but do exactly the opposite. ItemManager loads its modules on the fly and only whenever it's necessary. That's why i can work with thousands of items like a champ while native components would quickly fail.