A lot of those designs predated initramfs. I have yet to hear of a setup where there&#x27;s a good reason for not mounting &#x2F;usr in the initramfs. (Though, yes, I have heard of setups where you <i>can</i>, it would just be a fairly involved change. It is a legitimate problem for these sysadmins to be compelled to rearchitect things, although I&#x27;d personally blame that more on the distro model where all parts of userspace are tied together than on systemd itself.)