Comment by josephcsible

> The Linux kernel is de facto pretty tightly coupled with GNU stuff

No it isn't, or Android, Alpine Linux, and Chimera Linux wouldn't work nearly as well as they do.

> you don't get irate about that, so why does Systemd deserve your ire?

And even if it were, systemd has a lot of problems that the classic GNU utils don't. We don't hate systemd just because of the tight coupling.