The larger debate is that Lennart and company, developers with very poor histories of playing nice with the community at large, are continuing to swallow more i

The larger debate is that Lennart and company, developers with very poor histories of playing nice with the community at large, are continuing to swallow more items that are outside the scope of an init daemon, and creating a monolithic replacement for the separated core utilities (and GNU itself), very much against the UNIX/Plan9/Inferno traditions of many small apps that "do one thing, and do it well". In this case, they are attempting to embrace/extend/extinguish forks of udev by making them wholly incompatible with systemd's implementation going forward. These are not actions that are welcome in the community, hence the large amount of vitriol from those opposed to it.