And that pretty much encapsulates, what systemd is attempting vs what people think it is attempting. Systemd is not innovating on ideas, but on implementation.

And that pretty much encapsulates, what systemd is attempting vs what people think it is attempting. Systemd is not innovating on ideas, but on implementation. How do you make things like service dependencies, stateless systems, etc consistently possible. It is bringing something which was possible only for a person of your skill level, down to mine. I would say it is the same difference between Ubuntu and Arch - idiotproofing the Linux ecosystem.