>the sheer hatred that people display towards it and its developers certainly is not [warranted]. Especially when many of the complaints can be summarized as,

>the sheer hatred that people display towards it and its developers certainly is not [warranted]. Especially when many of the complaints can be summarized as, "I can no longer use my years of experience and knowledge about the old init system." (The people who complain that systemd unnecessarily enlarges an install's attack surface I have more sympathy for.)