This dichotomy systemd vs. SysV init is simply false, and only applies to the fortgeschrittene Fertigfutterfresser who are slaves of shrink wrapped anything ready to run.
Like obese McDonaldians, trying to discuss gourmet-food :-)
Is is perhaps because the other init systems are only willing to touch a very narrow definition of init while depending on rotten, unmaintained pieces of the ecosystem like consolekit without being able/willing to maintain it themselves?
Or perhaps the plan is to let systemd folks do that while shitting on it so we can cook up a 600 LoC 'minimal init' while outsourcing a whole lot to systemd maintainers while taunting our minimalism?
Personally, I wouldn't shit on systemd, because it already stinks like hell, not a nice place to dump :-)
I have. I also have heard it runs into trouble with the likes of GNOME/KDE.
Is this seriously your 'competitor'? I did have a good belly laugh at this one, thanks!
So no real disadvantage for my cozy caveman setup.
Anyways, laughing is good.
Even if it sounds terminally insane.
Sankt Franziskus, or something like that.