I sympathize with them more than I used to. I attended a meeting of the Linux Standard Base working group back when systemd was truly awful compared to it's cur

I sympathize with them more than I used to. I attended a meeting of the Linux Standard Base working group back when systemd was truly awful compared to it's current state, and the main item on the agenda from employees of the other major Linux companies was how they were going to force Debian / Ubuntu to go along with systemd so LSB didn't have to shrink their scope or not apply to them. I no longer blame them for not wanting to play politics to be part of a community like that. I don't really like Ubuntu's style personally anymore, but for what they're trying to do, going with everyone else's solutions is probably a good thing to avoid.