Yes, more lazy admins. Lifelong learning anyone? They can't vote because they've been using Debian for free all this time. Oh, the entitlement.

Go ahead fork it.

I'm confident systemd will modernize Linux servers and desktops alike. And if by next year there is something better, systemd will be replaced.

Just take a look at device filessystems. Anyone remember devfsd? Let me cite wikipedia:

"While devfs was a step forward, it had several disadvantages of its own.[2] Since Linux version 2.5 devfs has been succeeded by udev."