The journald design is horrible to the point of useless

There seems to be a tremendous dislike for using shared libraries. Perhaps it too is part of unix heritage, as at one point these things did not exist and code that was meant to be used from multiple programs was written in the kernel.

Perhaps the "unix way" is to make sure that whatever you do, "cat" can be used to read the data, and if it takes a kernel module to construct that file on the fly for cat to read, that is more acceptable than to have a binary file and some iterator functions in a library...?