Very interesting article, refreshing as well to see a criticism of systemd based on technical details. Unlike most other criticisms of systemd, this author does not resort to personal attacks and insults against Lennart Poettering or fear-mongering appeals to tradition. I still think systemd is an improvement over the previous sysvinit, but the author seems to have found some real conceptual flaws with systemd that are somewhat unsettling.

I hope this article can start some actually useful conversations about init systems that do not fall into the pitfalls of FUD and negativity that seem to have surrounded this topic in the past.