Comment by CRConrad

> Also, the core of systemd is not even particularly big. People often mix into completely optional modules

So how "optional" are those modules in practice -- how many systems run just the init core of systemd and not the whole shebang?

> that run under the wider systemd project, but that's a false conclusion that "systemd eats the world".

Isn't the very fact that there is what you call a "wider systemd project" at least a fairly good indication that systemd indeed is attempting to "eat the [Linux] world"?