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Systemd has a lot of attention and people working on it and it will eventually become good enough for the vast majority.

But there were questionable tie-ins with various pieces like udev, consolekit and even gnome that allowed Systemd to become defacto init. The call for a kernel bus promotes a similar lock in with Systemd and this makes the use or development of alternatives and choice difficult.

There are things like predictable network names which are useful for 1% of users and are anything but predictable. Binary logging makes sense for the security industry Redhat serves but again has no use for the 99% others who anyway have to put up with it. There is a pattern of forcing things onto everyone that make sense for a tiny minority.

The big problem is open source funding. No one is interested in just supporting projects they benefit from. Acquisitions or hiring developers put these projects and developers under the control of companies like Redhat. Redhat has become a cathedral and a cathedral by sheer size and nature is always interested in securing and furthering its own influence and interests. When you allow such forces to become too powerful they will subsume the public interest to their interest.