Wait, people really believe writing boilerplate filled bash scripts to implement just the idea of dependencies does scale into enterprise environments? Which don’t come even close to emulate most of the very useful and important features systemd provides?

Seriously that’s a take I have never heard one say while keeping a serious face. There is a reason systemd is as popular as it is for every desktop and server distro out there.

It is far from perfect, but who in their right mind would want sys-v init or similar systems back? I can’t even imagine what a mess it would be managing all the contexts and implementing it securely and portable with an init script.

“consumer-grade”

Yeah, that’s the point. Again, the average user (as in desktop user) gains nothing from using a different init. There may have been some crazy server-side scenario where the type of init you used actually mattered but we’re talking about desktop Linux, which the answer is a clear-cut no. I’m not stopping the people that are interested in trying a different init out, I’m just telling them that there’s little to no benefit in the end if they’re expecting an improvement in performance or whatever else.

As someone who wants to learn enterprise linux rather than desktop linux, I would like more detail, but I’m willing to just take your word for it.