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I too will offer solidarity and hopefully absorb some of the downvotes. I don't know who is downvoting you; your points seem quite reasonable. It is unclear that actual death threats have been made. In either case, this is irrelevant to the technical merit of systemd. We should not let valid criticisms of systemd be derailed by inappropriate focusing on death threats, which is a separate issue from hating systemd for technical reasons.

I can see that systemd as a piece of software has many benefits. However, as a software project, the attitude as you mention, is a major problem. In my one single minor interaction with systemd people, I already agree with this criticism:

"My experiences with systemd's Debian maintainers (and, indirectly, systemd's upstream) have been far from satisfactory in this regard. Instead of taking a flexible approach, and being willing to provide a range of glue facilities and approaches for different daemon upstreams, the systemd community seems doctrinaire. Daemon authors are expected to do as they are told by systemd upstream, rather than systemd upstream making things comfortable for daemon developers.

This is IMO the opposite of the proper attitude."

(from https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00182.html)

This counts as a "technical reason". Though not directly about the software itself, a project with such an attitude should not be relied on because the people in control do not have your best interests in the long run.