Wait, people really believe writing boilerplate filled bash scripts to implement just the idea of dependencies does scale into enterprise environments? Which don’t come even close to emulate most of the very useful and important features systemd provides?

Seriously that’s a take I have never heard one say while keeping a serious face. There is a reason systemd is as popular as it is for every desktop and server distro out there.

It is far from perfect, but who in their right mind would want sys-v init or similar systems back? I can’t even imagine what a mess it would be managing all the contexts and implementing it securely and portable with an init script.