I have some issues with this article. First off, the standardisation issues have nothing to do with the "benevolent dictator" system, if anything it's an issue

I have some issues with this article. First off, the standardisation issues have nothing to do with the "benevolent dictator" system, if anything it's an issue with the lack of an equivalent mechanism outside of the kernel. Secondly it's IMHO naive to think that "waiting a few years more" would have solved the division within the Debian technical committee, considering how vocal systemd opponents still are. What I'd be more interested about is "here is what you get with all this technical debt", ie what makes core systems so complex.