[VLM]

The idea that you should artificially separate OS into server and desktop, solely so you can charge more for the license for server OS, is a false dichotomy that needs to go away and only exists in proprietary commercial OS. It exists solely in the marketing sphere, and only intersects with the technical sphere WRT including artificial limits to ruin performance on a system that has a workload marketing doesn't approve of.

I do not want parallel non-deterministic booting on a server. If it works I don't care because I don't reboot daily/hourly/for fun. Its a linux box not Windows. If it doesn't work then non-deterministic behavior makes race conditions and error messages very confusing.

There is an inherent architectural / philosophical violation where flexibility is considered "unix"ish yet it is forbidden under systemd domination. If you disagree with the above paragraph for init system on a server, thats OK, I think someone with that has the wrong opinion but I respect an honest disagreement. Under a unix-ish philosophy there have been about ten alt-inits over the past couple decades that'll parallel / non-deterministic init, so go ahead friend, more power to you, give one a try until your fingers get burnt. Sysvinit (or BSDs init) will be waiting for you when you return. This flexibility, this compatibility, is philosophically forbidden under systemd.

You will do it the systemd way, because we won the political battle, not for technical reasons (god knows systemd is not the first attempt at this architecture). Or you will be forced to leave. Well OK then. The future is looking very freebsd to me. So long and thanks for all the fish!