> The project has much too much responsibility, handling parts of system that could easily be delegated to separate projects.

That makes on sense. Systemd provides some basic building blocks. Splitting systemd across multiple projects only provides drawbacks, no benefits.

systemd does NOT interfere with GNOME. It provides logind and some other bits which GNOME makes use of.

Talking about "ad personam" is a bit weird if there's so much misinformation.