Reading your last paragraph made me wonder if maybe systemd is suffering from the bike-shed affect - while barrier of entry to say kernel development is so that

Reading your last paragraph made me wonder if maybe systemd is suffering from the bike-shed affect - while barrier of entry to say kernel development is so that it detracts most bystanding naysayers, as far as systemd goes, it feels like a lot of people have a lot of different opinions because what systemd is doing is much easier comprehended than the aforementioned kernel.