IMO runit is abandonware at this point. No release since 2014.
Have you looked at s6? It’s a compelling alternative.
Have you looked at s6? It’s a compelling alternative.
Churn isn't a virtue.
If there were any issues they would be worked on.
I’m not so sure there isn’t any room for improvement though. In the related s6 project there is lot of discussions about adding new features that are beneficial for supporting a modern Linux distro.
I haven't once been in a situation where I thought systemd would help. Granted, I don't run many custom services, but for what it does, runit does a great job. Something a bit more user friendly like s6 would be nice, but otherwise it stays out of my way and I don't think about it.
NixOS/Guix would be worthwhile switching to, but Void is comfortably simple.
Things can be built to last, including software. That so many programmers today are not building such things (possibly they are incapabale) does not change fact that some did so in the past (whether intionally or not), and some still can.