I also find this a peculiar thing to say.  Systemd replaces a few thousand lines of shell scripts and several dozen small well-tested binaries (i.e. coreutils and friends) with a suite of tightly-coupled daemons and tools written in a few hundreds of thousands of lines of C.  They haven&#x27;t removed the &quot;jumbled mess&quot; or made the implementation less complex; they&#x27;ve just hidden it away inside opaque binaries.<p>I&#x27;ll grant that LSB sysvinit scripts aren&#x27;t the easiest on the eyes, but they&#x27;re hardly the shining example of what a scripted init system can look like.  OpenBSD&#x27;s rc scripts are far more elegant and just as featureful, IMHO.