Re: "It solves a problem that people have."
> The problem is the previous init solution rc.1, rc.2 etc. required several messy scripts, and,
So they replaced those scripts with a bunch of configuration files that aren't gemerally on the root file system, filled with arcane verbs and sections that TBH look like they were invented to cover special cases as Pottybrain discovered them. And then, just to make it interesting they decided that logging to the console was a bad idea (though TBH all the distros now default to clearing the console, --no-clear is your friend...) When it couldn't get any worse, they then decided that we needed a whole new set of command line utilities to manage the complete POS that they had created.
Nope, I'm not a fan :-)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
