Thing is, sysvinit, runit, s6, and OpenRC all work too. It's not just systemd. The only reason we 'had' to go to systemd is systemd was actively being sold to d

Thing is, sysvinit, runit, s6, and OpenRC all work too. It's not just systemd. The only reason we 'had' to go to systemd is systemd was actively being sold to distros and they were implementing things to get them to switch. Personally I find that suspicious behavior in an allegedly open ecosystem.