> Systemd is at odds with the core design philosophy of UNIX No. All the enterprise Unix OSs had advanced system management facilities that a mesh of RC script

> Systemd is at odds with the core design philosophy of UNIX No. All the enterprise Unix OSs had advanced system management facilities that a mesh of RC scripts well before Linux (the OSS Unix OSs still mostly don't). Whatever the core design philosophy of Unix was or is, mostly people who do work on it as a hobby seem to care.