Watching Linux distros push essential functions into the Desktop layer (power management, network management, etc) without good CLI equivalents limited my windo

Watching Linux distros push essential functions into the Desktop layer (power management, network management, etc) without good CLI equivalents limited my window manager choices in the past. This was mostly because the Gnome/desktop folks at RHT were willing to do the work, and there wasn't anyone else to do it, and then that's what happened. What this did though is pretty much make it where Gnome was the only usable option, or you had to fight a good deal to make something else usable. as Fedora's desktop choices seem particularly rough, and have pretty much left me with using Linux in VM environments from Macs. This is very quickly becoming the default for most developers I know, with a few exceptions here and there. I don't think systemd hurts too bad in the service statup environment once you rememer the commmands are all different, but I don't like what it's doing with creeping into other areas, like what it does with logging.