Oh no Pottering at work again! That's what finally drove me from Linux - PulseAudio and having dysfunctional stuttery sound after upgrading from Fedora 7 to 8 I think?? It worked fine beforehand. And then realising I was spending forever tinkering rather than actually getting anything done.

After I went to Mac I didn't look back. Now I look at the mess and debate of SysV, DHCP server in the startup etc. and can only imagine that this home system concept will be the same. As you say, over-engineered and unreadable. Ugh.