I think the biggest problem with systemd is that they named the main init service manager systemd and also named the organization systemd! It'd be like if GNU n

I think the biggest problem with systemd is that they named the main init service manager systemd and also named the organization systemd! It'd be like if GNU named their initrd "GNU". Their other tools just have systemd prepended, e.g. systemd-journald, much like GNU Make or GNU libc (glibc) or similar. The "scope creep" issue doesn't get complained about for GNU because it's clear they're an organization making a bunch of tools for different purposes. Systemd-the-organization is the same, but the naming makes it unclear that many of these tools are not depended on by systemd-the-init-system.