It uses a daemon that gets talked to over dbus (and i see systemd in the flowchart, but as they have adopted meson, requiring ninja and python3, i can't really

It uses a daemon that gets talked to over dbus (and i see systemd in the flowchart, but as they have adopted meson, requiring ninja and python3, i can't really tell if it is just a vestigial thing or deeply embedded). And from the documentation it seems that said daemon will be autostarted by dbus if any of the "frontends" gets fired up. This reeks of overcomplicated Gnome-sims.