[icebraining]

And you can't criticise it anywhere (watch the downvotes).

Nonsense. HN has plenty of comments criticizing systemd, some of them in this very thread. They just have to be substantial, not merely empty rants or technically wrong claims.

[setq]

I apologise. This is the first time I've criticised systemd on HN. I had a massive rant on another site a couple of years ago when CentOS 7 dropped about the catalogue of failures I had been through with systemd, completely backed up with evidence and bug reports and it was hammered by downvotes instantly.