The false dichotomy was called out by the Uselessd Guy some years ago.
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat
by _emacsomancer_ on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:21AM
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Yet it comes up nearly every time I express concern about any aspect of systemd. ("Like it or not, you've got to move on from sysv; systemd is the industry standard" etc. etc.)
B: So you want to drive a horse-and-buggy then?
That is to say, there are quite a number of modern inits that are not systemd. It's such a straw-man argument to bring up sysv init every time someone says something critical of systemd.