It’s almost like the Unix philosophy is bullshit at its extremes. System init is a fkin hard problem, you can’t just throw million small tools at it, the same way we don’t write web browsers by pipe-ing together curl and whatnot.
Sure, if I were to want a shitty, hacked together unstable system, where not even the few linux program could run on a different distro, as has been the case before systemd.