> Systemd is such an awesome improvement over everything that came before it. It benefits me on a daily basis.

Curiously, I have the exact opposite experience. I never cared about init systems and I do not care now. But before systemd I could mostly ignore the existence of the init system (besides editing an occasional script). With systemd, on the contrary, my daily life is made miserable in many different ways due to systemd randombly breaking stuff, and having a state scattered through a myriad of different "configuration" files. When I manage to fold it to my liking, the next version always happens to break my hard-obtained configuration. It feels like it is not my computer anymore and I cannot wait enough to get rid of it.

Besides, the people who had the idea to store the logs in binary format should be shot. In front of their families.