alt Hacker News> Why do you think this is an attempt at a persuasion tactic
Because they said so:
> As part of that we sometimes adopt schemes that were previously used by only one of the distributions and push it to a level where it's the default of systemd, trying to gently push everybody towards the same set of basic configuration [1]
This was written 11 years before that debug log was added. Extremely loose connection. Things do actually change over the course of 11 years, believe it or not.