Unfortunate. However, one bad move doesn’t justify dismissing systemd altogether.
Do I wish for s6 and dinit to be competitive with systemd?Absolutely.Do I wish for systemd what PipeWire has been for PulseAudio?Yes, please.Do I wish that distros/DEs would be less reliant on systemd?Hell yeah! (Can I please have an rpm-based distro without systemd?)
But, unfortunately, at least for now, systemd is the most robust and (somehow) most polished init we got. And I’m actually grateful for that.