Worse

I'm more worried about increasing interdependence among these frilly subsystems. Systemd is the bees' knees, but isn't needed for many uses of Linux. Pulseaudio is a fine mixer (that doesn't *always* mute for-no-reason whatever channel you had meant to use) but for many purposes ALSA provides all you need. Making software work even though this or that bit of apparatus isn't there benefits the Linux and *BSD communities both, and maybe the Glorious Successor to Linux (which might have better ways to accomplish what those subsystems do) as well.