You're moving the goalposts. I was supposed to be horrified at bad things like PulseAudio being merged in, not vague bad things in general. If anything, the fact that none of these servers use networkd nor (until very recently, well after that bug was fixed) UEFI is a sign that in fact systemd isn't a giant glob and I can pick and choose components. So, bring on the PulseAudio merge, if it's anything like networkd I have nothing to fear.