Because it is simply too big and still growing. End result is that unless you can get some deep pockets to fund your ongoing efforts on the fork, you are unlik

Because it is simply too big and still growing. End result is that unless you can get some deep pockets to fund your ongoing efforts on the fork, you are unlikely to overtake systemd any time soon. Hell, Canonical and Debian tried for the longest time to maintain a shim that would enable systemd-dependent upstream projects to work without systemd. They simply could not keep up with the interface changes and feature creep.