What I find so off-putting about the systemd advocacy is the combination of a sort of learned helplessness ("we don't have anything else", "Red Hat forces it") combined with an argument that it is inevitable, anyways.

It reminds me of the Windows NT advocacy back in the late 90s, that "Unix is Dead" and that Microsoft's invincibility made it inevitable, anyways.

Because a bunch of people did not agree with this view, we ended up with something quite different than the roadmap that Microsoft had for us.