The people that develop GNOME chose to depend on the D-Bus interfaces exported by some systemd-provided services (eg. logind) because they actually solve some p

The people that develop GNOME chose to depend on the D-Bus interfaces exported by some systemd-provided services (eg. logind) because they actually solve some problems they were facing with a clean and robust solution. Yet they made sure that the dependency is optional, to accomodate those that for a reason of another do not use systemd. This means that systemd is not insidious, it's valuable.