Comment by egorfine

> systemd appears to be monolithic from outside, but it really isn't.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck... systemd is modular solely in theory. In practice, I am grateful that I can still remove journald and resolved from current Ubuntu installs and I'm pretty sure that's not going to be possible quite soon.

Systemd itself may be modular, but practically distros are not going to bother.