I also think folks tend to underestimate just how many things you end up needing to support various init schemes. Every single item listed under his "Some of t

I also think folks tend to underestimate just how many things you end up needing to support various init schemes. Every single item listed under his "Some of the daemons provided by systemd are:" example is something that could have a meaningful impact to startup depending on configuration. They happen to be useful later too, but that doesn't mean the system doesn't need them during init.