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> That only addresses the one gripe I brought up as an example though, and not the general pattern. For instance another issue I've run into is this automagical hacks that parse fstab crypttab etc and make units at boot time, while not actually supporting all the customary options of those files.

Maybe the long term plan is to have these files dropped and replaced with something more systemd like?

> we're left with a hodgepodge of the old and new systems.

Same argument: if the long term goal is to completely overhawl the system, then at any point before that goal is reached there has to be old devices still in place.

That being said, I don't know much about systemd, not about the long term goals of systemd authors. I think that Poettering language of choice is C, so this explains that, but there's always room for other solutions in the FOSS world.