Netctl is alrady the third implementation of networking scripts I'm aware of. The last one (netcfg) still seems to be working just fine. It's not an overly elab

Netctl is alrady the third implementation of networking scripts I'm aware of. The last one (netcfg) still seems to be working just fine. It's not an overly elaborate set of scripts for networking configuration, that already integrates well with systemd. All these things tell me that it will probably not take long until Arch takes to take advantage of network configuration in systemd. But then, for more complex, and more dynamic environments, people have used NetworkManager. If it will replace NM, which is a much more substantial piece of code covering a lot of the more complicated setups (VPNs, cellular, a lot of user-interaction), I don't dare to speculate about.