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I don't accept that being irritated at 'radical change' (I'm not sure exactly how this is so radical, it's an init system, not a kernel.) because you're losing domain knowledge is a good reason. That would imply radical change is necessarily bad and should be avoided everywhere. Carriages to cars, ice houses to refrigeration, bow and arrow to black powder. Every single one of these radical changes required people to learn something vastly different. With your reasoning we should've waited longer for some intermediate technology to smooth the learning curve. People were getting really good at taking care of horses, now they need auto mechanics? Building an ice house was becoming a science, how do I fix leaking refrigerant? My aim and dexterity with a box is second to none, but now we're using guns? Now your first thought might be that all of those things are different than server admin, but are they really? I would suggest the only thing different for server admins is that it's entirely less radical of a change than all of these other technologies.

As for my comment being unwarranted, sysadmin'ing requires learning new tech. If there is an improvement on a tech such that it has mass adoption, learn the tech. It's your job. If you don't like it, change jobs. I'm not saying you should shut up and put up. However, we're far past that stage of valued input and people are still complaining. The decisions have pretty much been made that are going to be made concerning systemd adoption. Yet here I am, reading yet again how systemd was the wrong choice, even though rigorous debate was had and core teams decided it was the best decision. Even though this was the biggest drama piece since that blogger blasted linus for being rude. Here we are with 'radical change' in systemd.