It seems like a lot of these comments are missing the point by discussing virtues of various packaging systems and auto-start behaviors. It seems to me that th

It seems like a lot of these comments are missing the point by discussing virtues of various packaging systems and auto-start behaviors. It seems to me that the author was saying that consistency is important - installed services are expected to have a consistent behavior on a given platform. A lot of tooling is built based on this, because that behavior is defined by the respective systems. When people force override of these behaviors, it does break things as well as cause frustration. The article isn't a criticism of any one packaging system or autostart choice of a distribution, but rather of individual packagers who impose their own choices over those of the system they're packaging for.