In #1552, it was contemplated that a plugin many not want/need an entire settings screen of its own. In #2233, it came to pass that the PrivacyManager plugin consolidated various privacy-related configuration settings.
Finding all the privacy-related configuration settings is convenient for the user, but the approach appears to break convention, i.e., a plugin should do one thing, and do it well.
To restate, we should have small, loosely coupled plugins.
Use case: the OptOut plugin was co-opted by the PrivacyManager plugin. As a separate plugin we would have enabled third-party developers to provide a MegaOptOut plugin that may meet other user needs (e.g., configurability).
This ticket proposes a configuration framework that plugins can expose.
Impact:
This was implemented as part of #4126
See the examples of LiveTab plugin (its own settings page) and ExamplePlugin - you can customize settings in the "Plugin Settings" admin menu.