The model of how the init scripts worked is terrible. There's no cross distribution bug fixing of those scripts. It's something added by the distribution. If th

The model of how the init scripts worked is terrible. There's no cross distribution bug fixing of those scripts. It's something added by the distribution. If there's an upstream script, it's often buggy. Or it didn't integrate with the 'speed init scripts up hacks' that various distributions were doing. Huge time sink for no particular gain.