The good people over at Infoworld have published a story outlining why they feel systemd is a disaster.
Excerpt from Infoworld:
While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there. systemd is becoming the Svchost of Linux—which I don't think most Linux folks want. You see, systemd is growing, like wildfire, well outside the bounds of enhancing the Linux boot experience. systemd wants to control most, if not all, of the fundamental functional aspects of a Linux system—from authentication to mounting shares to network configuration to syslog to cron. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures what's happening behind the scenes.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:20PM
It's poorly engineered crap, talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater!
Systemd needs exorcising while we still have the chance. Replacing a traditional unix init is not a difficult task but replacing systemd is already a non-trivial undertaking.