That's exactly my view. We had a chance to replace sysvinit with something better. Instead we managed to replace it with something that's horrible in an entire

That's exactly my view. We had a chance to replace sysvinit with something better. Instead we managed to replace it with something that's horrible in an entirely different set of ways. The most devastating thing I can say about it is that it feels "enterprise." It's unnecessarily obtuse, complex, and clunky. It feels like a port from some other operating system that's been shoehorned into Linux, or like something designed to sell consulting services and training courses by wrapping very simple things in needless complexity. We could have ended up with something more straightforward, clean, and simple. It's a tragedy.