It’s not generally hated. It has a cadre of permacritics that are very vocal and often dramatic, and some of them often pop up in threads such as this one, that

It’s not generally hated. It has a cadre of permacritics that are very vocal and often dramatic, and some of them often pop up in threads such as this one, that is all. It’s especially pathological since there are alternatives - if you hate Lennart, Redhat or whatever, use something else and move on. Meanwhile millions are using it to get shit done without much drama. It’s been years since I filed a bug on systemd, but that’s what grown ups do when inevitable bugs are encountered, not make themselves and everyone miserable because they deeply integrated some dubious 1970s Unix philosophy into their personality.