I still cannot understand how it came about that everyone adopted systemd, despite it being a showcase of the most selfish, reckless and irresponsible maintaine

I still cannot understand how it came about that everyone adopted systemd, despite it being a showcase of the most selfish, reckless and irresponsible maintainership ever. And it's not like it's something new, it's been like that for what, 10, 15 years now?