> Systemd broke tons of stuff
It works just fine on many distributions.
> Similarly, wayland and mir apparently will eventually break the window manager
No they won't. E.g. any DE still relies on Xwayland (often impossible to run pure Wayland). So basically relying on X11. You're making things up.
> relied on a few modular parts of gnome 2. (Including selecting wifi, Bluetooth and audio settings
I can change wifi, Bluetooth and my audio just fine.
Please be more specific. For the things you give some detail it seems things I've never seen before (else would've noticed the 1000s of bugreports). For others your problems are vague "broke tons of stuff": huh?
Systemd broke tons of stuff, apparently permanently, unless you're willing to switch distros.
Similarly, wayland and mir apparently will eventually break the window manager I run (which was written over a decade ago, and still works better for me than the alternatives). From this article, is sounds like Mir would have broken it even more by making it harder to reproduce the existing functionality.
The real kicker is projects like Unity and Gnome 3, which broke the parts of my laptop workflow that relied on a few modular parts of gnome 2. (Including selecting wifi, Bluetooth and audio settings) I've had to resort to re-learning forgotten command line utilities. (Unity was always unusable, and Gnome 3 was broken on Ubuntu because NIH, so those aren't viable options either).
I can't be the only one with this problem. If I were, Mint wouldn't constantly be at the top of distrowatch.