I never liked the cumbersome mess of shell scripts it replaced. Here's what I really don't like about systemd: (1) It's a "god object" at the system level, rol

I never liked the cumbersome mess of shell scripts it replaced. Here's what I really don't like about systemd: (1) It's a "god object" at the system level, rolling massive amounts of functionality into a single monolithic "system manager." There are advantages to that, but it also makes it impossible to strip away complexity and leads to the core system becoming really bloated with functionality. That's the road Windows took that made Windows such a mess of cruft. (2) Poor UX... it's obtuse and counter-intuitive. This is my biggest gripe. It replaced a hard to use ball of shell scripts with... something even more confusing! Every command seems designed to be hard to remember and clunky to type. Common tasks are "undiscoverable" in that you have to search docs to figure out how to do the simplest things. Git has this same problem by the way, but to a somewhat lesser degree.