[nijave]

Yup, enterprise Linux insulates you from unneeded change (in the business context). For most companies, systemd will have no impact on the bottom line vs sysvinit vs whatever.

However, paying an extra engineer to sort through all the changes possibly will.

On the other hand, there's some interesting trends like monokernels and minimal OS images that leverage services running off-machine instead of expecting so many local services removing some of the complexity/volatility (DNS, SMTP, federated login)