> It's been fashionable to hate on systemd, ... From what I can see, the dislike exists for far more practical reasons. In my experience, it has a tendency to

> It's been fashionable to hate on systemd, ... From what I can see, the dislike exists for far more practical reasons. In my experience, it has a tendency to break in ways that the numerous other init systems I've used over the decades never did. When it does break, it can easily prevent a computer from booting, which makes that computer pretty much useless until the problem is fixed. I've found that it has often been far more difficult, and takes far more effort, to debug and fix problems with it than with other init systems. Its tendency to become more invasive over time has also opened the door for even more problems involving it, well beyond its role as an init system. Given the large number of bug reports, questions, complaints, and so on about it that I've seen over the years, people don't dislike it just to be "fashionable". They dislike it because it's making their lives unnecessarily painful.