It's not new technology that bothers me. Me having to do more work bothers me. Systemd is going to make my job more difficult in terms of troubleshooting and maintenance - way more difficult than remembering that an operator requires two operands to evaluate.
What's really funny about systemd is I think that all its features have tons of value, and I would definitely use them. But I also think its creators are completely fucking batshit insane for making it mandatory to replace huge chunks of the operating system just to get those features. You should be able to just run systemd as a normal user process and still maintain the same level of functionality, but for some fucked up reason somebody thought it would be a great idea to make it a completely non-backwards-compatible non-portable operating system requirement. It's a stupendously bad idea, and the only reasoning anyone can come up with for why they designed it that way is "It's Advanced!" Of course, I should add the caveat that I don't care at all about boot times, and so people who are obsessed with short boot times will find systemd very refreshing, in the way an Apple user finds replacing their old iPhone with a new iPhone very refreshing.
What's really funny about systemd is I think that all its features have tons of value, and I would definitely use them. But I also think its creators are completely fucking batshit insane for making it mandatory to replace huge chunks of the operating system just to get those features. You should be able to just run systemd as a normal user process and still maintain the same level of functionality, but for some fucked up reason somebody thought it would be a great idea to make it a completely non-backwards-compatible non-portable operating system requirement. It's a stupendously bad idea, and the only reasoning anyone can come up with for why they designed it that way is "It's Advanced!" Of course, I should add the caveat that I don't care at all about boot times, and so people who are obsessed with short boot times will find systemd very refreshing, in the way an Apple user finds replacing their old iPhone with a new iPhone very refreshing.