sysctl --system: should /etc/sysctl.conf be last?

Hello. I found commit of adding "--system" option to sysctl: 10095927

There is such message:

/etc/sysctl.conf is always applied last

But for example in gentoo some predefined /etc/sysctl.conf is shipped. And if I want to change something, I can not just add it to /etc/sysctl.d/something.conf. Instead I'm forced to edit /etc/sysctl.conf and deal with updates, etc.

It seems more reasonable to me that configs in scanned directory should be more preferrable as they are more chances to be locally managed by administrators because separate file changes is easier to deploy in compare with single-file editing.

So I suggest to change sysctl files application order in such manner that /etc/sysctl.conf will be before at least /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf. What do you think?