Comment by einpoklum

> Nothing wrong with this if a system service is going to be present

This kind attitude will be the death of Linux. In the form of systemd-os.

> a system service is going to be present on 99.999% of installs

It's not, because a large number of users and system administrators dislike it, and don't use it. And the high number it does have is mostly due to distributions forcing it on you - so that you can only remove it by switching distributions altogether.