Comment by egorfine

> disagreement based on technical or even practical merits

Philosophy can't be reasoned based on merits. Of course there are technical merits as to why systemd-as-PID1 was (not today!) an extremely good piece of software compared to sysvinit, there's no question about that. Likewise there are valid technical reasons why systemd-timesyncd should be abolished and never mentioned again.

But how do you decide LP's attitude on merits? How do I argue with Red Hat who shoved systemd down everyone's throat?

So yes, it's a religious question of sorts. The religion that made Unix unix.