I found that talk incredibly condescending. He speaks about launchd as if it’s a good thing but it’s quite universally accepted as a bad thing and apples attempts to upstream the problem to the bsd developers has been met with open hostility.

It’s also to the point where Benno states that people don’t like change, but that’s really not true. Everyone jumped on virtualisation (except Theo De Raat), everyone jumped on containers, Kubernetes, GO, Rust, eBPF et al.

There are new technologies which don’t have to eat the universe to function.

Most people who have a problem with systemd don’t actually hate it, they’re upset because the environment that allowed systemd to grow no longer exists for its replacement. Coupled with the fact that we should really consider systemd a proof-of-concept for something better, means that we’ll be stuck with buggy, weird, non-deterministic C++ for decades.

That’s the root of the problem, not that we nerds dislike change, we tend to love change.