I have to get our systems people to write a paper on it. My experiences with systemd are pretty much perpendicular to what some people claim.
Anecdotal evidence is useless.
What you're suggesting is basically spreading FUD. Your article didn't point out a single actual issue with systemd.
I run large scale VM infrastructure on a systemd distro (RHEL, in particular) and I've yet to encounter a single issue that was caused by systemd or, for that matter, any issue with systemd that wasn't easily resolved.
That doesn't mean that there aren't any. Also, FUD (as I understand it) is people spreading unfounded rumours, not people documenting their own experiences and problems with a piece of software. The intent is incomparable.
If you are actually interested in tangible structural flaws in systemd, look no further:
https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/28/black_hat_pwnie_awa...
Also, see how Poettering handled this zero day (Which grants root to any user with a numeral): https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237 HINT: He doesn't think it's a bug...
The fact that this even fucking exists in the first damn place: https://latesthackingnews.com/2017/06/29/a-systemd-vulnerabi...
See also: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...
This formulation may be misunderstood. The bug did not grant users root rights, it ignored the user= setting on a service if the service was intended to run as a user stating with a numeral. So you already needed to be root to create a service. The bug allows a service to run with more permissions than intended though.
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