To be fair, while systemd really does provide something that SysV init never could, it is hardly without flaws. In the past, it has had several severe security

To be fair, while systemd really does provide something that SysV init never could, it is hardly without flaws. In the past, it has had several severe security problems (up to and including privilege escalation vulnerabilities) that the developers have not always handled well. It's a "move fast and break things" kind of software, which in the realm of essential operating system components is not a good quality. I agree on pulseaudio though, my only real gripe with that is documentation.