[floatboth]

The referenced article that criticizes both SysV and BSD inits is from 2002. BSD systems have had separate scripts in a folder (rc.d) since, like, forever. And "[package installation] needs to edit one of the existing boot scripts" is the only criticism there.

There might be more current issues, but I believe it's good enough. For example, BSD init doesn't have super web scale auto restarting and monitoring and log routing. Well... it doesn't need to. Just use it to launch supervisord or something. Also, it's not super fast because it uses the shell. Again, it doesn't need to be. It's fast enough for general purpose servers and desktops. For special cases like containers and whatnot you need special tools.

[JdeBP]

That's an odd definition of "forever", there. NetBSD gained its rc.d system at the end of 2000, with the release of NetBSD 1.5. FreeBSD started porting work in 2001, and that carried on through 2002. FreeBSD 5.0 with rc.d was released in 2003. OpenBSD didn't get the rc.d system until version 4.9, released in 2011. Is just 3 years ago "forever" in World Wide Web time, now? If so, does that make the 11-year gap between NetBSD and OpenBSD "almost quadruple forever"? (-: