Except, I've seen this same exact song and dance routine played out already with systemd. Some RedHat developers make a thing no one wants to use, so they tightly couple many orthogonal concerns into one giant hairball, and they go on a road show to get a few crucial players (like GNOME and ConsoleKit, which was deprecated by the systemd devs) to hard-depend on it so distros have to choose between using the hairball or losing something that was entirely unrelated. It's a great play by RedHat, because now things are so interdependent that you need full-salaried developers working full-time on it, since the cognitive overhead required to understand how everything interacts now precludes a loosely-connected network of part-time volunteers from maintaining it themselves.

Oh, and this whole affair has the obnoxious side-effect of stirring up all the /r/linuxmasterrace dipshits into a feeding frenzy that spills over onto HN, where they scramble over themselves to spam everyone who dares disagree with the same half-assed links and excuses.