In his defense, systemd does solve some fundamental problems with sysV-style init. Incrementally improving the disparate sysV init systems to be more concurrent

In his defense, systemd does solve some fundamental problems with sysV-style init. Incrementally improving the disparate sysV init systems to be more concurrent and robust would likely have benefitted the community less, and at the end of the day it still would not have looked like the familiar init system sysV users are used to.