[hamburglar]

I agree completely that cron, logging and init all could use a little (a lot of) modernization. I just think it's really bad judgment to tie all of those together into one all-encompassing project whose scope seems to grow and grow the more I read about it, and whose leaders seem to have such a low opinion of what anybody else wants.

To make a stupid car analogy, it feels like having someone redesign your car's ignition switch and suddenly finding out that he also had strong opinions on the stereo UI so he made the changes together (and dependent on one another), and you're an idiot if you don't like it.

A lot of people complain about systemd missing the "unix philosophy" and that gets derailed on specifics of what people think that philosophy means ("everything is a file" or "do one thing only and do it well" and "be modular") but one significant difference to me between unix systems and Windows or OSX is that unix is built of simple components whose scope is very limited. It's related to do-one-thing and modularity but it's not exactly the same thing. Systemd is not simple or limited in scope.