I think you're maybe overreacting. It's worth considering that far from being targeted only at desktops, systemd seems to be pretty useful in server installs –

I think you're maybe overreacting. It's worth considering that far from being targeted only at desktops, systemd seems to be pretty useful in server installs – the CoreOS ecosystem is a good example of where it works well. I do get the impression that systemd isn't particularly well-designed, in that it feels like it would be equally possible to implement a more modular solution with better-defined and -designed APIs, such that the problems it solves could be handled collaboratively across the whole UNIX platform. I get the impression that this would make many people happier. I do reject your characterisation problems as 'silly desktop issues' however – and it's shallow arguments like that, rather than genuine objections to the implementation of systemd that make the discussion so unconstructive.