Hummingbird?

      As one user who is becoming very frustrated at Poettering's continuing takeover of the entire Linux operating system, I wonder if the Ubuntu folks have looked into Hummingbird? https://github.com/Sweets/hummingbird

     I really liked the initial idea behind systemd, to create an init that would start things in parallel as much as prerequisites permitted to take advantage of modern highly parallel platforms, but then resolver is added, time sync is added, session management is added, and now wants to take over home directories, no thanks, every step of the way he breaks things.

     Resolver being a case in point, while the spec for txt records does say to limit 512 bytes, bind9, the standard name server did not do so, and as a result many large sites with complex SPF records had SPF records that spanned more than 512 bytes. Systemd resolver broke these by truncating at 512 bytes causing mail delivery failures. Fix, turn off systemd-resolver, install bind9. But these
kinds of work-arounds should not be necessary.

     Besides, the original idea behind Unix / Linux was to create a toolbox where each tool did a specific job and did that job efficiently and well, and that permitted us to combine tools anyway we want. Systemd is more like a tentacle sex monster out of a bad anime film.