Exactly, my biggest problem with the systemd complainers is that it's all kind of abstract things, like it's not the Unix philosophy, which in practice doesn't

Exactly, my biggest problem with the systemd complainers is that it's all kind of abstract things, like it's not the Unix philosophy, which in practice doesn't mean much and certainly doesn't automatically mean it's a bad thing. SysVinit was a horrible, inconsistent mess of bash scripts of per-individual-developer variations in quality and not insignificant variations between distros, or even individual services within the same disto, I wouldn't hold that as the cornerstone of the Unix philosophy, that is if one's intention is to paint it in a positive light.