No, not unrelated. The hardware may be buggy but it worked fine for years and years, until I installed systemd. Only then did it break. Not good. This is what

No, not unrelated. The hardware may be buggy but it worked fine for years and years, until I installed systemd. Only then did it break. Not good. This is what happens when you throw old software out and try to replace it wholesale -- you stub your toes on all these corner cases that the prior software got right, and now you have to get it right in the new software. And for somebody like me who personally never felt much pain from boot times or writing init scripts, the payoff from the switch has been negative so far.