Blablabla. Honestly, at level 1 it doesn’t even notice visitors who have never been to our place.
We are not talking about the noise of the devices. That is manageable depending on the device and level (I have some myself). It’s about the fact that the original poster has to take noise protection measures due to noise from outside. And all the openings, of course, are a disaster in that regard.
Read carefully.
Advantage, I don’t have dozens of meters of ventilation duct in the wall/ceiling that I never get access to again.
Disadvantage, that you have dozens of devices running. Compared to a central system, you also have significantly louder devices (centrally you actually don’t hear anything) with more than just basic ventilation. Regardless, it doesn’t matter at all that you have ducts in the wall/ceiling. Nothing happens to them. Germ breeding grounds are old wives’ tales.
P.S. Of course, you have all electrical, water, and wastewater lines exposed on the surface and not in walls/ceilings, since you never get access to them again? ;)
Before it ends up being no ventilation at all for cost reasons, I’d rather take that.
That question does not arise because controlled residential ventilation is mandatory for the original poster. Otherwise, I agree with you. In new buildings, however, there are no rational reasons to use decentralized devices, since central systems have exclusively advantages in operation.