Comment by lmm

> Why would you write portable software that has a dependency on an init system?

Ask the GNOME project.

> What is objectively worse than buggy networking in systemd is having 26 different incompatible ways to configure networking in Linux.

"Linux has 26 different incompatible ways to configure networking. Systemd solves this problem by introducing a 27th way that's buggier than most of the others"???