> Clearly this is the same as what systemd does? Do we conclude from this that OpenBSD feels "not modular", since it has an NTP implementation in the same repos

> Clearly this is the same as what systemd does? Do we conclude from this that OpenBSD feels "not modular", since it has an NTP implementation in the same repository as its init, or is it only bad if systemd does it? Well, you CAN replace OpenNTPD in OpenBSD (and you should if you need e.g. autokey), and it will just work™. The issue with systemd is certainly not the bundling, it's the tight coupling which makes it a lot less modular than it claims to be.