It's their modus operandi and it haven't changed, believe or not.

> it is definitely our intention to gently push the distributions in the same direction so that they stop supporting deviating solutions for these things where there's really no point at all in doing so. [1]

> Distros may deviate from this by patching this downstream, but by shipping this as secure default I do hope to gently push everybody in the same direction.

> start pushing people gently to define GPT partition type UUIDs for missing archs > Let's generate a single gcc `#warning` message asking people to define partition type UUIDs for their architectures if they are missing. [3]

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se...

[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-Ma...

[3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d42e4fa258701ff5e0...