I like it too.<p>I think systemd has the misfortune&#x2F;honor of touching decades-old subsystem interfaces.  Any time anyone ever makes a change to something that&#x27;s worked the same forever faces criticism.  systemd&#x27;s feature set is so attractive that it&#x27;s getting&#x2F;gotten adopted by the vast majority share of linux distros.  The folks who didn&#x27;t prefer it but thought that they could ignore it may have been surprised and vocal when it showed up in their favorite distro.<p>&gt;undocumented 200+ line init scripts ... undocumented shell scripts<p>Maybe we&#x27;ve just traded those for undocumented C init programs?