Trying to see the big picture

BTW I'm not saying any of this is bad - the focus leads to good things. I personally like the cleanup and standardization that systemd brings to us and the work on gtk+ object introspection, allowing desktop apps to directly interact with system-level stuff no matter the language they use and all that seems like a good idea. I still believe having higher-level interfaces is a good idea as it lowers the amount of work and hackiness needed for the apps - but that's more of a feeling than fact.