To me this is a bizarre line of reasoning. I was "forced" to adopt systemd, but so far it's been leagues better than previous attempts (OpenRC, sysvinit) for i

To me this is a bizarre line of reasoning. I was "forced" to adopt systemd, but so far it's been leagues better than previous attempts (OpenRC, sysvinit) for integrated management of daemons, user-session daemons, a predictable way to access logs of a daemon ("systemctl -u postgresl", for example) without having to guess what it's log file name (if it even has one or logs into the syslog, etc.), etc. Painting this as some sort of nefarious "extend extinguish" strategy is just tin foil hattery. (Yes, there are still bugs, etc., but they will get fixed and the whole ecosystem will benefit. The security problems discussed ITT seem to stem more from the use of an unsafe language rather than design issues, per se.)