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Modern mechanical engineers, to this day, learn the thermodynamics of steam engines. Not because they are living in the past, but because they are building foundation knowledge that will permeate everything they'll be doing in the future.

LFS should stick to academic pedagogy, instead of trying to compete in the Linux Distro space.

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The world is vast, and I doubt that every mechanical engineer has studied steam engines, and that it makes a difference in the end.

Most modern programmers don't learn COBOL60 or Commodore BASIC. Modern mathematician very rarely study writings of Euler or Gauss; even 50 years old math books may be hard to grasp for modern students.

I agree that using a simpler tool for educational purpose is useful, but since SysVinit is obsoleted almost everywhere, it made sense to drop it. LFS could have chosen a simpler init than the domain standard, like runit or s6-init.

"Obsolete"? Apparently you aren't paying close attention.

See this GIANT argument with hundreds of comments? It seems some people believe that SysVinit is, in fact, not even close to obsolete.

If Gnome/KDE can't support the init system I choose to use, then I don't choose to use their garbage software anymore.

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