[benterix]

I don't think anyone would ever object against systemd as a project, it would make as much sense as objecting against, say, GNU Chess. All software has bugs, and they're gradually worked out. But the way it was introduced that made many people upset.

[Hikikomori]

The way it was introduced was that many people could see the value in cgroups V2 and being able to drop unmaintained projects. Maintainers of distros and projects sometimes did this against some users wants, but in my opinion there was just lots of baseless complaining without creating an alternative.