Did you even read my comment? You are attacking a strawman.

> You take something that's […] easy to understand for yourself, and somehow generalize it to everyone. "If it's easy for me, it is easy for everyone"

No. I am taking something that‘s easy for me, and suggest making it easy for everybody.

> The better question is why should a layperson ever need to know about systemd in the first place.

They shouldn‘t, and I did not say so. That‘s the strawman.

Does an average Windows user know about the NT kernel? No, and he does not need to.

> When designing products for end users who are not technical, the overriding design goal should be easiness and reliability.

I agree.

> having to learn about systemd, by definition makes the product/system not easy.

You would not have to learn it though. You could just flip a switch in the GUI.

> they should not even have to learn about its existence.

And they would not have to.

I don‘t know how my car works, and I don‘t need to. I can use the simple interface (steering wheel, pedals, shift) which is exposed to me.

> A system where editing text files can make or break the system

> You edit a text file.

Again, complete strawman. You would not edit text files.