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This is the guide on the Request for tools process. It is the suggested requirements before a candidate should consider applying and should by no means deter an editor from applying. The point of modules is to make it easier for trusted editors to do their work. Some editors focus primarily on one area. Rather being discouraged due to lack of work in other areas and being unable to receive the tools they would be trusted using, editors could be granted a single module. In the long run it would make it easier for other editors to evaluate a candidate if they started with using a module. If the candidate didn't abuse their module, the community is more likely going to trust the editor with full administrator rights. In a way Request for tools is a sort of stepping stone before request for adminship. Module editors are not required to run a RFA, unless they want all three modules. The whole point of the Administrator tools is to make maintenance tasks easier. If an editor doesn't want full administrator rights, why force them.