I'm well aware there are other inits: OpenRC, BSDinit, Runit, s6/s6-rc, and many others are all better alternatives to both sysvinit and systemd. I was making the sysvinit comparison here for simplicity's sake.

>Anyone who erroneously thinks that van Smoorenburg rc is bug free hasn't spent time fixing the whole host of faulty, incomplete, and rickety van Smoorenburg rc scripts that exist.

I never said it was bug-free, I said that the problems with the rc scripts aren't inherent to the sysvinit model.