I have some issues with this article. First off, the standardisation issues have nothing to do with the &quot;benevolent dictator&quot; system, if anything it&#x27;s an issue with the lack of an equivalent mechanism outside of the kernel. Secondly it&#x27;s IMHO naive to think that &quot;waiting a few years more&quot; would have solved the division within the Debian technical committee, considering how vocal systemd opponents still are. What I&#x27;d be more interested about is &quot;here is what you get with all this technical debt&quot;, ie what makes core systems so complex.