I'm curious if there was an intentional reason that Kafka Connect standalone requires a connector properties on startup?[1] ConnectDistributed only requires the worker properties. ConnectStandalone however requires the worker properties and at least one connector properties. Since connectors can still be managed for standalone using the REST API, I was wondering if that restriction could be lifted? If so I'll log an enhancement JIRA but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious.
Thanks, Micah [1] - https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/93804d50ffc40fb6cdc61c073f4a62f0931f042d/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/cli/ConnectStandalone.java#L60-L63
