Gunas in Dravya - what do you think?

Neither do they separately exist or co exist. The word exist it self means utpad-vyay-dhrovyatmak. One who understands the word exist will not have the question about separate/independent existence.

Sayyamji has made a good attempt to explain

To further and clearly understand the word exist… read it this way …

A substance has attributes through which it fuctions and it expresses its efficiency through its modification. Oneness of it all is call exist.