[castillar76]

Very much agree. I'd add that the reaction of the systemd developers to security and functionality bug reports has been...decidedly mixed, which is enough to make me very nervous.

For me personally, it's also that systemd keeps expanding and expanding, which both makes more things dependent on their security profile and reduces choice in the ecosystem. The number of different boot/init systems I might need to use is pretty limited and I might be OK with just one (especially since systemd /is/ really good at it). The number of DHCP clients, firewall systems, DNS clients, and so forth is decidedly not so limited, and results in a nasty choice of "use the systemd thing and hope it supports all the features you need" or "rip out the systemd thing and replace it and hope that works and continues to work" or "install something that sits on top of the systemd thing and thus has to interact with it in strange ways that may bite you unpredictably". Each of those is a recipe for a lot of Maalox moments, and it feels like the response to that concern is, "Aww, you're just being a worry-wart."