[md8z]

That doesn't seem to be what most Linux distributions were thinking around 10 years ago when the upstart/systemd/openrc/etc arguments started happening. The general consensus seemed to be that sysvinit needed to be replaced, or at the very least it needed to have a ton of other scaffolding on top of it in order to make it keep working.

Sysvinit never got stuck in those cases because it never had service dependencies and thus never needed to have a constraint solver for the dependency graph... So could you honestly say that pain point was better?