I'm not up to scratch on the history of this, but systemd is coming from the Freedesktop.org camp, which also game us GNOME 3 aka Unity. This group seems to hav

I'm not up to scratch on the history of this, but systemd is coming from the Freedesktop.org camp, which also game us GNOME 3 aka Unity. This group seems to have the biggest case of ivory-tower syndrome in all of OSS. :( The infuriating part is that the whole thing is backed by Red Hat and very closely followed by Ubuntu. So basically you have emotionally immature "devewopers" with overinflated egos being given the keys to the Linux kingdom. They've even made the kernel devs mad, but there's very little the kernel folks can do except shake their heads in stunned disbelief and repeatedly outline the concrete examples of where things have gone wrong. I'm saddened to say this, but it looks like Linux has gotten so popular that its collective competency has taken a nosedive. The problem is political. systemd is being looked at by enough people that issues like the one raised in this post eventually come to light. It's what happens next - the social/communicative stage - that is where the breakdown happens. I honestly don't get why things are like this.