I think they are Nerfing...
...the wrong object.
Single Points of Failure are BAD...unless you have Too Many Points of Failure. In that case the KISS dogma will never run over your karma.
As a private citizen that would be extremely put out if the entire world were to catch fire I cannot condone giving more control to a daemon that has fallen over so spectacularly. It's almost as if they fed SystemD'oh! steroids and expected good things to come of it.