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Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure
Here's how it works in my head:

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The little voice in my head (that sounds disturbingly like what I assume Ether would sound like) keeps yelling that what you've classified as "independent" isn't correctly classified as holonomic.
(what follows is a dim recollection of an explanation, I'll try to find the original post later)
While all degrees of freedom are controllable they are not all controllable ALL the time. For example, picture a "independent" drive system (think 16's drive this year) sitting with its wheels oriented to 0 degrees (along a Y axis). At this point it cannot control its position along the X axis.