The linked article is fortunately not really in that genre. It's criticizing the specific proposal in a reasonable amount of detail, not just vaguely criticizin

The linked article is fortunately not really in that genre. It's criticizing the specific proposal in a reasonable amount of detail, not just vaguely criticizing the abstract idea of launchd for being allegedly "not unix enough". The main thrust of the criticism is that wholesale porting over the OSX services layer to FreeBSD produces a poor fit, because a lot of the OSX design is designed for a different purpose: as developer-facing tools used to configure/ship a desktop/laptop OS, not sysadmin-facing tools used on servers. Also, it's all tied up with Mach in a way that is fine if you're running Mach (as OSX is), but drags in a lot of baggage for FreeBSD.