I'm sorry, I'm sure this has been discussed before but the search function isn't very good.

So in the Castellamarese war the present day Bonannos and Genovese were at war. My assumption is that they were somewhat equal in manpower to go to this war and not one side crushing the other one before Luciano got involved.

So considering that apparently the families can make new members to replace the dead ones plus a couple a year more (remember reading that), at what point did the Bonannos become a small family and why? I would imagine that after Maranzano won, he would make sure his family is the most powerful. Of course he wanted Castellamarese members, maybe that's the reason?

I would have still expected that after the killing of Masseria and Maranzano and the beginning of the "modern mob", the Bonannos would have been the second most powerful. I'm obviously expecting wrong...