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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @11:07PM
"nobody cares if we can invoke the *nix spirit early on in the boot process" - bullsh!t. Many people care which is why many are against systemd. One for one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @03:03AM
this was a *jab at the fact that if something works and works well then nobody "cares" as in "up in arms with flaming pitchforks".
if it works we mostly just use it (maybe with a small smile) but we hardly ever say "thank you"...