Hello Steve,

> This enraged me:
> The fact that a Troubleshooting Trainer could make an init in a couple
> weeks, yet the Redhat/Freedesktop/Poettering axis was telling us what a
> complex thing an init was.

They have in mind their own, different from yours and mine,
idea of how the computers are to be used and administrated:

A clueless user and magic behind the scenes, which also
keeps the user clueless forever - good for business.

/D