Why is it that every systemd critic doesn't know what systemd is or does?
Or how do I stdin/stdout interface (the basic interface in UNIX, where everything is a file) to the new awesome DNS resolver without having to bring up D-Bus ?
Systemd is like a bait-and-switch virus. If you want any piece of it, you have to take it all. It spreads and infects/replaces any other competing piece of software. All seventy bits have tight hierarchical coupling, and while you can run the top of heap independently, you can't run the utilities without bringing in the whole mess.
Systemd is valued by those who don't understand the quality of having independent programs that talk via standardized human-readable interfaces.
What's the reason behind ubuntu running its own stub for logind instead of systemd-login? And how would you run systemd-journal without systemd? As far as I'm aware this is not possible and the internet doesn't seem to know anything about running them standalone.