What I have come to believe is the "Tragedy of Systemd" - and if I am wrong on this, please let me know - is that it was a virtually unilateral decision to make

What I have come to believe is the "Tragedy of Systemd" - and if I am wrong on this, please let me know - is that it was a virtually unilateral decision to make the change, by one person, without any input from others. It was like all at one shot - here's this huge and largely non-transparent init system created by seemingly one person who it felt like was shoving it down everyone's throat. My way or the highway style. That, on top of what felt/feels like a lack of transparency about how it works (I could look at init scripts and understand them fairly easily and how they worked together - systemd seems almost a mystery to me; I just have to trust it works - so far so good I guess). Maybe I am wrong on all of this - again, if I am (and there's a good chance I am I feel) - please let me know.