i dunno-- i grew up playing around with every distro of linux and unix i could get my hands on, and my first was Slackware/LILO. a lot of the so-called "expert" tools _work_ in some fashion, but could definitely use a UI/UX improvement.

all of the binutils and basic stuff is pretty antiquated and has an old-school and specific perspective and lot of the modern work we do as developers and operators has use-cases which fall behind due to such a rigid way of thinking.

i think systemd is great, and maybe it's overkill for certain applications, but there are also smaller containers and distros one can use for this. i'm all for modernising linux and the tooling around it, it's sorely needed.