Personally, the video made me rather angry because all he does is set up straw men and knock them down using the same terrible pro-systemd arguments that get trotted out every time someone has a legit problem with its design.Some of the distros that use systems like runit and openrc are using those sustems because systemd doesn't fit their technicals needs, and likely won't ever because of designs that are made without community input.
Oh, sure, he mentioned the Debian developer resignations, but outright failed to point out the reason why they resigned: systemd was being railroaded into the system as a political move rather than being judged on its technical merits.
No. Ian resigned because he tried to ignore systemd's technical merits and tried to used political moves (GR process) to to kill it. As a result, most of Debian's community told him to top messing around with politics. Ian's resignation letter [1] explicitly says that:
> I should step aside to try to reduce the extent to which conversations about the project's governance are personalised. [...]
> The majority of the project have voted to say that it was wrong of me to bring this GR at this time.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/621895/
Please stop saying systemd was being railroaded. I have no idea what was going on in Redhat (I do not follow their mailing lists), but at least in Debian, it got on its own technical merits, and Poettering had no special influence there.
(That is not to say it is without problems; there are plenty of them. Still, the lesser of evils...)
Systemd got in on its merits in Fedora as well. (It had to — no amount of railroading is going to overcome something totally dysfunctional, and Fedora was the first adopter.) As I recall, the transition was fairly smooth.
Fixed that for you...