> Ah well. I'm still waiting for someone to basically fork systemd, remove all the fluff (udev, ntp, dns, timers, restart code, specialized logging, on and on and on)

Most of the things you named there are modular and can be easily disabled.

Furthermore, udev precedes systemd and systemd has in fact its own replacement for it (though the name escapes me).

Kind of a classic, people loving harping on systemd without properly understanding it.