[rkangel]

> The most annoying part is that some of the problems take quite a bit of work to debug due to the opaque nature of modern systemd/d-bus/...-based systems.

This is a reasonable criticism of systemd. The other points seem mostly to be a criticisum of the various distro implementations that use systemd. The sort of thing that gets tidied up over time anyway.

[throw2016]

The bigger question is whether an init should be a continuously developed project with rapidly increasing scope as now various distributions are on differing versions of systemd with widely varying compatibility and feature sets.