[jasonjayr]

> The inconsistency comes from the author thinking "All this init stuff is ancient, and filled with absurd work arounds, hacks, and inconsistencies. I'll fix that!". Then as time passes discovering that "Oh wait, I should add a hack for this special case, and this one, and this one, guess these were really needed!" as bug reports come in over the years.

Don't forget the best one: "We don't support that uncommon use case, we will not accept nor maintain patches to support it, and you shoulden't do it that way anyway, and we are going to make it impossible in the future" -- to something that's worked well for decades.