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by zlynx 1815 days ago
The people who matter, who write init scripts, in other words the distro maintainers, were happy to switch.

Why else do you think so many distributions switched?

Yes, the resistance is noisy and stubborn Unix neckbeards. Not even Unix, since every other Unix had something similar to systemd already. LINUX neckbeards.