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Right now I'm looking at this in Firefox in KDE. I'm not sure what "one thing" either of those does. Neither deals with plain text in a terminal.

But if you want a comfortable commandline UI, I'd say journalctl does the job far better than grepping log files. And heck, it outputs text so you can still grep that if you really want to.

KDE, for one, is a big bag of specialized tools, built using a set of libraries that are also very modular.

But I agree with your general view.

For almost any arguments against systemd, you can replace "systemd" with "linux kernel" and it still will be a valid argument, yet I have not seen many opponents of linux kernel on these grounds.

As an example: monolith, single project, includes a lot of functionality that should be separate, invents conventions, crash takes down all system...

Yet nobody in my memory has gone "kernel includes JIT compiler, let us boycott"

The Systemd project largely follows the "Unix philosophy" anyway. Lots of sub-tools, each doing one thing well. It's a bit like complaining that the GNU coreutils don't follow the "Unix philosophy".