"What’s typical for Unix, for example, is that all the tools, the C library, the kernel, are all maintained in the same repository, right? And they’re released in sync, have the same coding style, the same build infrastructure, the same release cycles – everything’s the same. So you get the entire central part of the operating system like that. If people claim that, because we stick a lot of things into the Systemd repository, then it’s un-Unixish, then it’s absolutely the opposite. It’s more Unix-ish than Linux ever was!"
I don't even know how you could get this misconception. This really does sound clueless or trollish.
The rest of the interview is of a better quality and you follow his reasoning much better even if in the end you would still disagree with him.