A lot of the resistance to systemd isn't resistance to the problems being solved, it's resistance to solving the problems with a big ball of interdependent comp

A lot of the resistance to systemd isn't resistance to the problems being solved, it's resistance to solving the problems with a big ball of interdependent components. As we saw in the xz attack, that's a huge attack surface to consider and the project's general hostility to producing small, focused libraries means that people often depend on it where they shouldn't.