[nieve]

I was one of those burned by Pulseaudio and the way Lenart basically dumped the project as soon as it got enough traction and before it was stable or truly functional. The design was, as you point out, very reminiscent of systemd - one giant, poorly documented and not very well tested audio system was supposed to replace all other parts of the Linux audio stack (above the kernel drivers) and give us near-realtime performance and a lot of fancy device management and dynamic control. Short form: it didn't until he had already moved on.

He still trots that disaster out as proof of his fitness to lead, so it's hard for me to trust that systemd is both well-designed and likely to not be abandoned by him for his next shiny pursuit of Windows. The involvement of other devs helps, but not enough to convince me systemd is worth getting near. Two years of audio fail made a good object lesson for me about Lenart's professionalism and dedication.