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I am a bit confused on the why there is a ESP-ADF. Why isn't the ADF merged into the IDF?
Whats the purpose to keeping things separate.

Adf uses a lot of binary codecs and libs that someone not using audio features has no interest in and are also compiled to a specific commit of idf. There are already too many components in idf that may not be used at all in a project.