[microtonal]

I agree very much with the points that you are making.

It would also help if small parts of a system would be replaced at a time. Replacing daemon/process supervision, login handling, logging, network configuration, etc. all at the same time in distributions that are used by millions of users is quite risky.

[digi_owl]

Sadly the best you will get out of the systemd camp is "tough luck, should have joined from the start to avoid the pain".