I take issue with the "nobody is forcing you" part. If you want to use Linux, and there are good reasons for it, it will likely be increasingly difficult to avo

I take issue with the "nobody is forcing you" part. If you want to use Linux, and there are good reasons for it, it will likely be increasingly difficult to avoid systemd. You can argue whether that's "forcing" or just "applying pressure", but it's real. That said, your other comments resonated with me. I used to fear systemd, and worried that losing the ability to hack on init guts shell scripts meant loosing the power to make my system work for me. I've since discovered that with systemd I don't feel the need to hack on init guts shell scripts like I used to, because it actually manages services intelligently on its own.