If anything the whole systemd mess has put more attention on the init system and dependencies. There's plenty of drama and its a modern vi/emacs kde/gnome fight that people are passionate about.

I think what burns a lot of us anti systemd people is the apparently lack of sound engineering principles and overengineering. It's just a damn init system! Other init systems (runit, etc) had already mostly solved many of the problems systemd claims to solve with dramatically less code leaving things like logging, scheduled jobs, etc to tools that absolutely didn't need replacing.