alt Hacker Newsthat's wrong in the sense it won't be useful for anything unless you have a dozen of those small things setup in the very specific way the author envisioned you set them up.
you seem to be repeating all the marketing, while mentioning in other comments you never understood any init system. i don't think you're the authority to be adding so many comments here.
Yes, systemd not being a monolith is a myth.
You can forward logs to rsyslog or something, but you really can't disable systemd-journald. Technically you don't need to run systemd-boot, you can use grub or something else, but then bootctl and systemd kexec stop working. You don't need to run dbus, but if you don't several systemd features break, and it's not even documented what needs it. The list goes on and on.
Also, the fact that all components are in the same repository and need to be built together causes a lot of headaches with packaging due to dependency cycles (like, systemd -> cryptsetup -> lvm2 -> udev -> systemd).