That's exactly my point. Systemd had a chance to replace the arcane cruft of sysvinit with something clean and well designed, but instead they developed somethi

That's exactly my point. Systemd had a chance to replace the arcane cruft of sysvinit with something clean and well designed, but instead they developed something almost as arcane and unusable. It's pointless arcana to boot. There is no reason whatsoever that a green field implementation of something so straightforward needs to be so obtuse. If the complexity of interface exceeds the complexity of the information it needs to take and provide, it's bad design. If the command or UI structure uses arcane terms when straightforward terms exist, it's bad design.