Redhat has more influence than people believed. Systemd is entirely driven by redhat, who controls a bunch of other software and said "we're breaking all the s

Redhat has more influence than people believed. Systemd is entirely driven by redhat, who controls a bunch of other software and said "we're breaking all the software we have so it only works with systemd". Distro maintainers would have immense amount of work on their hands forking everything to try to avoid systemd.