My response was a joke to a low-effort comment, but in general - systemd is complex because it solves the complex problem of booting up a system, complete with error handling, logging, etc. Many of the alternatives simply ignore part of the problem space, making the simple case simpler, but the complex case impossible.
My response was a joke to a low-effort comment, but in general - systemd is complex because it solves the complex problem of booting up a system, complete with error handling, logging, etc. Many of the alternatives simply ignore part of the problem space, making the simple case simpler, but the complex case impossible.