>from the ever-increasing essential complexity people like to foist on us every year From my perspective, the Jedi are evil. I think I understand and sympathi

>from the ever-increasing essential complexity people like to foist on us every year From my perspective, the Jedi are evil. I think I understand and sympathize with how you feel, but, from my perspective: read the man page this thread links to. Look at the (what is to a relative Linux newcomer like me) extreme, byzantine complexity of best practices you should follow to make a traditional daemon. I've made systemd ("new-style") daemons already, but I still don't have the know-how to make a traditional daemon; 85% of the terms in that list are still mysterious to me. And, after all that investment, I'd have something that's more difficult to operate and less cross-platform across distros. To someone focusing on the UX they have to deal with, that's complexity, while systemd represents "simplicity". It's complicated, of course. The externalities of convenience and centralization are problems, if rather ethereal ones. Rational actors don't often incur tangible pain for ethereal gains, though. In tangible terms, centralization is simplicity (compare SVN...); decentralization is bought with complexity (...with git). And it shouldn't be surprising that people want to be able to do things in the most painless way possible (especially when the deltas of tangible pain are so huge).