The distros were all wrong when they adopted hacky sysvinit configurations with things like Makefile-style concurrency, initscript headers parsed by a preproces

The distros were all wrong when they adopted hacky sysvinit configurations with things like Makefile-style concurrency, initscript headers parsed by a preprocessor just so they could get some half-assed dependency system, not modularizing their common initscript functions in library files and instead rewriting everything from scratch every script, so on and so forth. And then ignoring all the alternative init systems besides systemd and Upstart that were around well before. I'm not saying they're wrong this time, but there's no reason why not. The haphazard state of the Linux desktop that the original author laments over might be indication they're wrong in some places.