> But now obviously we were so blind and wrong all this time and the only true solution is of course systemd.

Come on, dude. That's unnecessarily polemic.

cron et al have served us for decades, yes. But that doesn't mean that cron is the solution that needs to accompany us until the heat death of the universe or year 2038, whatever comes first.

I agree, the systemd folks haven't exactly been the best when it comes to PR or when it comes to being even near feature parity with what they tried to replace. But now, they aren't just at feature parity, they surpassed plain old cron.

Maybe it is time to lay cron to rest, at least slowly.