Sadly, systemd has corporate backing, which is a very hard fight to win for a ragtag bunch of nerds with dayjobs who have the completely unreasonable expectation of not having their shit broken, regardless of how much energy we have. Money and full-time devs beats energy every day of the week.
This is like declaring McDonalds burgers the best because small burger joints can't offer Burgers _and also_ ice creams, salads, chicken and toys for children.
If we're talking about init; there are actually better inits already available but you'll never hear about them (runit, for instance) precisely because you don't just leave systemd.
You leave the systemd ecosystem.
This is the main point of the article: systemd as a "job system" is actually quite bad, but the ecosystem has some value in some places and you have to buy the shit with the pig.
