Depends on what you're optimizing for. Good for security and stability, bad for performance.

> someonepressedtheMkeyonthekeyboardd

"Pages would like to access the 'M' key"

"Open System Preferences" "Deny"

They do indeed have a lot (dozens) of small, single purpose daemon processes in modern macOS. Many of them access the network, too.

Over the years those processes have also frequently–at least for me–been the answer to “where did all my battery life go and why is my laptop so hot?”, as they’d rarely but inexplicably go haywire and peg the cpu at 100% until being killed manually.