Upstart did all those things without needing to worm it&#x27;s way through the whole system like systemd does.<p>You&#x27;re mistaking people&#x27;s dislike for systemd with a love of sysv init - no-one liked sysv init and everyone wanted a change. It&#x27;s just that systemd has taken a very broad remit, plus the maintainers have a &#x27;fuck your use-case&#x27; attitude.