There will always be busy sysadmins; there will also always be new sysadmins. If we agree that systemd is a good thing, the best thing to do is to switch over quickly and bite the bullet on the re-learning problem. I understand why it happened that way and there were excellent technical reasons for it, but Debian&#x27;s and Ubuntu&#x27;s slow transitions (through insserv and Upstart + logind, respectively) were probably a disservice in the end, if you somehow magically knew that systemd would be the end state for both distros.<p>I don&#x27;t expect it to change again in the next 10-15 years, except potentially to a competitor that is designed very similarly but just plain better.<p>I <i>would</i> like to see more empathy for the fact that systemd is a complex, underdocumented system. Lennart&#x27;s blog series is great for the &quot;why,&quot; but very sparse on &quot;how&quot; and especially &quot;how do I fix it&quot;.