None of that makes any sense to me. It's all open source. Suggesting that you can fork cron and you can't fork systemd is patently absurd. You say that "peop

None of that makes any sense to me. It's all open source. Suggesting that you can fork cron and you can't fork systemd is patently absurd. You say that "people who disagree can't just fork the logging component and swap it out for their piece" when in reality you really can. Getting systemd to output text logs is trivial, just point it to syslogd instead of journalctl. It sounds like you weren't aware of that. So much for being a tightly coupled design.