I&#x27;d also be interested. I kinda like systemd as far as I&#x27;ve tried it, but as you say, the discussion around it is just inane. I&#x27;m sure there are valid complaints buried in there, and you seem to be a reasonable sort about these things.<p>There are other pages out there claiming to be neutral overviews, but they generally just take a neutral tone while rehashing the same long-debunked myths and spreading FUD.<p>The specific thing I like about systemd is the init replacement. It&#x27;s just <i>so much better</i>! Automatically tracking daemon child processes, even detached ones. Supporting all the different modes daemons work, so I don&#x27;t need to write yet another damn clean-up-all-the-children function in a SysVinit script. It&#x27;s wonderful.<p>But systemd is a lot more than an init system and I don&#x27;t really have strongly formed opinions on those.