[theamk]

I think it is like old car vs modern cars.

Old cars are finicky and you need to keep maintaining it. But people know how every part of the system works, and they can repair it with a duct tape and a piece of bent wire.

Modern cars are full of electronics and don't break as much.. until the do. And then you need all new tools to repair them, and those tools are much harder to use, especially if you are used to old cars.

(I myself spent plenty of time on pre-systemd systems. I can tell you wonderful stories about apache children cleanup, and debugging failed startup at scale. I use systemd all the time now, and don't miss rc.d a bit)