Literally anything is better than init and the jumbled mess of shell scripts accompanying it, then. Those scripts are completely different between SysV, old-st

Literally anything is better than init and the jumbled mess of shell scripts accompanying it, then. Those scripts are completely different between SysV, old-style BSD, and BSD rc.d. I agree that SysV init scripts tend to be a jumbled mess, but they could be replaced with the rc.d framework without throwing out init entirely.