Another daemon for managing control groups

Another daemon for managing control groups

Systemd is meant to do one thing and do it well: be the basic building block for Linux.

OK, I'll pile the whole OS into one process then. It does one thing and does it well: lets me use my computer!

I think it uncontroversial that that statement is an example of bad reasoning through excessive vagueness. So too is yours. It does not provide clear limits on the functionality of the program: you could pile anything in there and say, oh, it's part of being a basic building block! Why not throw out glibc and replace it with IPC calls to systemd? glibc is just a basic building block, after all!

This is clearly ludicrous -- but your description of systemd's alleged purpose would seem to encourage it. If this really is the best idea systemd's authors have of its purpose, no wonder the thing has experienced scope creep like I've never seen outside government IT projects.