At this stage, I'm in the "systemd is in practice fairly bad, but there's not very much I can do about it" camp. It now seems unfortunate that its ideological

At this stage, I'm in the "systemd is in practice fairly bad, but there's not very much I can do about it" camp. It now seems unfortunate that its ideological opponents have behaved so poorly in so many cases; I'm pretty sure this drastically colored community evaluations of the technical merits of their arguments. My hope has been that systemd will, over time, increase enough in quality and settle sufficiently into its existing scope to recede into the quiet background of the system administration experience. (Where init systems have for the most part lived while I've been paying attention.) Perspectives like the article here leave me kind of uneasy.