He also fucked up some in systemd, journalctl being biggest example.
He also fucked up some in kernel, to the point Linus yelled at him
The critique is entirely deserved
"Let's just invent our own non-ACID file format instead using what's already available." (Like perhaps SQLite.) Howard Chu of OpenLDAP had a rant on this:
* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924071300-170035-why-you...
Does journald support off-host log shipping yet? Because for all its supposed replacing of syslog, as a sysadmin I still have to run (r)syslogd to send things to a central log host via RFC 3164/5424 anyway.
I'd expect when he finds new toy to keep himself busy someone else will fix it to actually work properly for the most time like it happened with PulseAudio