The kernel being largely monolithic is an annoyance that people do keep trying to fix where possible, but it's easier to sweep that under the rug than to deal with monoliths in userspace.
> Just read the thread rather than trying to conjure meaning from a single comment
My comments are half of the thread, and I don't think I'm missing context; yes, the kernel is often a monolith, but 1. nobody really likes that, it's just hard to fix[0], and 2. the kernel can mostly be ignored because it presents a clean enough ABI and doesn't really affect userspace[1], whereas systemd is a monolith in userspace that very much does affect the rest of the system. I'm not seeing any "cognitive dissonance".
> rather than trying to conjure meaning from a single comment like a rtard
Insulting people is both against the site guidelines[2] and an excellent people to get people to disagree with you even if they might have been otherwise convinced.
[0] Because context switching in and out of ring 0 murders performance.
[1] Seriously, you can swap out the kernel completely like Debian kFreeBSD and it's basically invisible to the user.
[2] "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)