[the_why_of_y]

There may be alternatives to systemd, but ... launchd?

Do you really want to write your job descriptions in the amazingly silly XML p-list schema?

Upstart's event model doesn't even work properly.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/447654

And... did you know it's using ptrace(2) to track processes?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/406397