The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

"sufficiently unhappy with systemd to actually roll up their
sleeves to come up with something"

"nobody so far has condescended to propose a better design"

You assume this is just due to laziness or pure troll malice, but
I think there is more to it. By all signs systemd's design _as
an init replacement_ is excellent, and that's why we don't see
any alternative proposals from qualified people. The problem
with systemd is its ever increasing scope, devouring (and
changing beyond recognition) more and more parts of the base
system. The solution isn't a complete redesign but splitting it
up, but that can only be done either 1. with the help of
upstream, which has not been forthcoming, or 2. by forking it.