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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.
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systemd: Harbinger of the Linux Apocalypse.
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(Score: 2) by cykros on Tuesday August 19 2014, @07:46PM
I'm not sure it's fair to compare pulse to ALSA/OSS, as they operate on separate levels and really aren't there to do the same thing at all. If anything, it's worth blaming the distros for really going out of their way time and again to break things.
I personally use Pulse on Slackware (making me in a very small minority). Because Pulse allows me to do things (using ALSA) that ALSA cannot do by itself, such as output my music from one sound card (speakers) while another audio stream (perhaps a private video call) to a headset, all at the same time.
Thing is, Pulseaudio works fairly reasonably for what it tries to do (once ALSA is reasonably configured to output to it). The biggest issue with it seems to be that distros are assuming that people need this functionality badly enough to make user after user spend hours figuring out why they're getting no sound at all from a fresh install that is more complicated than it actually needs to be in the first place. While it's gotten better over the years, it still seems nuts considering that most users really just would be fine with a working ALSA configuration using dmix for hardware mixing, and if they needed pulse, should be able to just grab it themselves (just like people do with Jack...).
As for most of the rest of your examples though, I'll mostly agree. While I don't mind the exercise of making new tools to try to do it better, or just increase the options out there, it is a little scary watching as the distros line up to all adopt the same thing as all of the rest regardless of the fact that it's unnecessary and adds more confusion and general bugginess to the mix. Whatever happened to "if it's not broke, don't fix it"?