This article is a bit of a joke "It's software so of course it's buggy" isn't a great argument when you're replacing something that didn't suffer the same issues.

I just count my blessings that runit is widely packaged in every major distro because it can just happily sit on top of sysvinit, systemd, upstart, pretty much any init system and does things in a very simple shell script style, I really wasn't a fan of the weird ini-like format for systemd or several different tools I'm expected to learn just to read my (now binary) log files competently.

If you're sick of switching init systems constantly or don't want to have to write separate scripts for your linux box and your freebsd box even, I highly recommend checking runit out.

I'm sure I'll give it a serious shot eventually... in about 3 years once they work all the Poettering kinks out, just like PulseAudio. They're doing some cool things with cgroups and stuff, so I hope it gets there eventually.