I would say that Poettering could have gotten all of this go a lot smoother had he just contacted the rsyslogd devs and worked out something with them before em

I would say that Poettering could have gotten all of this go a lot smoother had he just contacted the rsyslogd devs and worked out something with them before embarking on writing a new logging daemon. Not doing so probably cost him 6 months of adoption, and was probably caused by a personality flaw. However, the technical reasons why a new one was needed are very valid.