&gt; I would happily admit there is extensive room for improvement in systemd, but we UNIX folks have been working with worse-is-better and rough-consensus-and-running-code for decades.<p>You&#x27;re understanding &quot;worse is better&quot; backwards. It means &quot;starkly simple to the point of being initially off-putting is better&quot;. In this context, it means (in part) &quot;be a big boy and learn how to write a shell script&quot;. (Not to be too condescending, but I think that captures the Unix perspective here.)