> Also, why on earth would you change to another init system ever? Or why would you ever change to an init system you don't know?

My sentiment exactly, but weren't you building up an argument in favour of SystemD?

> - Systemd DOES NOT break backward compatibility.

No, sometimes it just breaks and leaves you staring at a black screen. If the magical fix appears to be chrooting into you installation from a liveCD and reverting to sysvinit every time, at some point you are going to want to do that upfront.

I don't blame SystemD for existing, or people for using it and being happy with it, but I do blame Debian for defaulting to it when there was no reason to do so at that time other than "mainstream appeal".

>- The amount of stuff systemd is doing for you is insane.

Yes.