It is unfortunately a political problem being actively prosecuted with technology. Red Hat would like SystemD to be the init system of record and have - for ye

It is unfortunately a political problem being actively prosecuted with technology. Red Hat would like SystemD to be the init system of record and have - for years now - been subsuming other utilities, daemons, logging, su, etc. in order to make it the obligate choice. Any technical gains from the integrations seem secondary to the control this gives them over the direction of Linux as a whole. This is obvious dirty pool. If they'd gotten where they were on the merits, I think people would be a lot quieter. Beyond the political stupidity, systemd has made itself a single massive and opaque point of failure, especially since it ate logging.