I don't know the author and he does not provide context, so I don't really get what the fuss is about. Mentions haters, personal threats of violence but this lo

I don't know the author and he does not provide context, so I don't really get what the fuss is about. Mentions haters, personal threats of violence but this looks like the usual: a bug in systemd due to an incorrect assumption by the developers, proposed solution: decide that there is no bug and systemd is correct, the use case is wrong. I experienced one first hand, a definition in fstab for a removable drive suddenly (after a systemd update and no warning) caused the computer to fail at boot time because the removable drive was not present. The fun part is that the emergency shell had a bug too that prevented itself from starting and looped to infinity instead. It was nice to have to drive 6h each way to deal with this systemd new "feature".