I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a fair comparison really - one of the main complaints against systemd is that it&#x27;s taking on too many tasks, init plus NTP, cron, etc etc. Those modules are superficially optional, but in reality, a great deal of them will be turned on in any distro using systemd.<p>The init system should be an init system <i>and nothing else</i>, IMO, so targeting all that extra complexity (which was my original point) is fair game.