SystemD is of out of control. The Best Minimal, Modern, Linux alternative

Echo'ing a sentiment I've seen previously here, systemd genuinely has to have one the highest haters to benefit-to-humanity ratios of all software projects.

Unless its for a very basic environment, trying to replicate much of what it enables just makes for a far more complicated and error prone system.

I was expecting to read why systemd is out of control but the only thing mentioned is this:

> While systemd is a powerful init system, it has grown far beyond its original purpose, adding features like age verification that many feel don't belong in a core OS component.

Is there a better explanation as to why it is out of control?

systemd haters are out of control.

> When people talk about minimal Linux, they often think of the old days when systems used only 300 MB of RAM.

Wait, what??? No - we think of systems with 4-8MB of RAM and hard drives were <= 120MB (MB, not GB).