One thing to think about is that my adding complexity in the beginning, you can avoid complexity in long run. Imagine a Unix shell without pipes. That would cer

One thing to think about is that my adding complexity in the beginning, you can avoid complexity in long run. Imagine a Unix shell without pipes. That would certainly be simpler in a sense, but the ability for programmers to write simple programs that work together would be severely curtailed. Systemd itself might be more complex than initv, but it provides a lot of tools and guarantees to application developers which makes life simpler for them in the long run.