Fully agreed. There has been a race to the bottom regarding technical competence by various entities for various reasons. To me it seemed at the time that Redha

Fully agreed. There has been a race to the bottom regarding technical competence by various entities for various reasons. To me it seemed at the time that Redhat used dark-pattern-like behavior in order to push systemd, exploiting people's hopes regarding a more unified Linux ecosystem. There is nothing wrong with making things easier to use. The problems begin when the people you put in charge of that effort (Poettering and co) are extremely short-sighted, do not properly understand what came before and thus make mistakes that could have easily been avoided, are average-at-best engineers with a personal history of bad projects (pulseaudio, avahi), are bad communicators and take valid critique poorly. When I was still at Google, colleagues at Android and ChromeOS teams laughed at the mere mention of systemd. The general consensus in the teams I mostly interacted with was that systemd resembled a hidden iceberg with enormous problems, the magnitude of which would slowly become apparent. Which is one of the reasons Google has mostly kept away from it.