> That is the world you are asking for, not the one we presently live in.

So, like mobile? Which is 70%+ of computing these days? :-)

> Freedom, for not only the end user but all the way up to distro packager. Systemd is designed to be non-portable, and force a network-effect pressure. I was similarly suspicious about WSL designing toward a linux API instead of POSIX... an effort to reduce the potential for alternatives emerging in the future, where your choices are windows or linux.

Freedom to do what? Init systems should be a solved problem, done and done. Innovation should happen higher up the stack, the init system should be uniform, hopefully flexible and universally adopted, and ideally standardized fully (as in ECMA & co.).