Is there a reason that a lot of constructors in ROS based code take in tf2_ros::TransformListener as one of the input? I want to get an idea from the design perspective.
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The tf2_ros::TransformListener takes up a relatively high amount of processing power because it subscribes to the publications of the high volume /tf topics and caches the results locally in memory. It's much more efficient to have one copy which you access from multiple places in your code by passing a reference to it and querying it directly rather than instantiating multiple instances which will increasing network traffic, memory usage, and cpu usage for each instance.
