Divergence from UNIX philosophy

I have no problem with the *concept* of a core userland, the problem is that the *implementation* is no longer following the UNIX philosophy of passing plain text around to ease debuggability. If you've ever tried and succeeded in solving any problem related to *Kit, D-Bus, or the like, and you haven't actually hacked on the software before, you're a whole lot smarter than me. It's essentially a black box as far as anyone outside of the plumbers' world is concerned.