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Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

Eleven init systems enter, one init system leaves.

It's sort of wild to me that I was working as a full-time software engineer during an era in which we were still writing bespoke shell scripts to orchestrate process management. Modern systemd provides for more nuanced "I'm ready" signaling apart from "is the process alive" (via Type=notify), but this kind of backward compatability really helped bridge the legacy gap. Look, I respect that stvpidcvnt111111 has a right to their opinion, but we can't let rhetoric with the intellectual weight of a mediocre fart waft into spaces as critical as computing infrastructure.

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