It started with bad press because author made pulseaudio and its design didn't appeal to many (lots of features but missing pieces, not due to dev but market fo

It started with bad press because author made pulseaudio and its design didn't appeal to many (lots of features but missing pieces, not due to dev but market forces and drivers). So when the same guy says he's gonna rewrite pid1 with a radically different design people went ballistic. My personal opinion is that proper dependency based init systems are amazing but I'm not fond of some slightly superficial aspect of systemd (syntax, parameters, logic, config files).. to the point I think in a few years someone may make a cleaner variant.