As a Slackware and OpenBSD user I've really never understood this complaint. The init scripts they ship with are neither difficult to understand nor hard to read, and new ones are very easy to write.

Maybe the LSB stuff was awful; I never used it, and for that matter I can't think of a reason I would want to. It's the old FreeDesktop.org issue: it's a probably-interesting solution to a problem I just don't have.