[yencabulator]

That's really not a great argument for why it belongs in systemd.

Kitchen sinks are generally useful, but 17 kitchen sinks in a helicopter is not a good idea.

[acdha]

Where would you put it instead of something started by pid 1? It needs to boot the kernel and unlike macOS they have to run on a ton of different architectures so they can’t count on the firmware.

[yencabulator]

Huh? It's just another userspace program serving TCP.