alt Hacker Newssystemd would be a derail even if you weren’t misrepresenting the situation at several levels. Experienced sysadmins in my experience were the ones pushing adoption because they had to clean up the messes caused by SysV’s design limitations and flaws, whereas in this case it’s a different scenario where the extra functionality is both unneeded and making it worse at the core task.
> Experienced sysadmins in my experience were the ones pushing adoption because they had to clean up the messes caused by SysV’s design limitations and flaws
That's funny. I used to have to clean up the messes caused by systemd's design limitations and flaws, until I built my own distro with a sane init system installed.
Many of the noobs groaning about the indignity of shell scripts don't even realize that they could write init 'scripts' in whatever language they want, including Python (the language these types usually love so much, if they do any programming at all.)