Re: what?
Other "antiquated Unix philosophy" they didn't follow:
(1) small tools, each of which does one job well
(2) run daemons with minimum privilege
(3) reject unparseable configuration options, don't silently ignore them
Illuminating search: https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=site%3Atheregister.co.uk+systemd
I had forgotten that systemd had won lamest vendor Pwnie award.