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Then I'll point to the wide success of monolithic utilities such as systemd as evidence that consolidating typically helps long term.

Which is to say, not shockingly, it is typically a tradeoff debate where there is no toggle between good and bad. Just a curve that constantly jumps back and forth between good and bad based on many many variables.



systemd is also completely useless on its own. It still needs a bootloader, a kernel, and user-space programs to run.

When it comes to process managers, there is obviously disagreement about how complex they should be, but systemd is still a system to manage and collect info about processes.




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