Re: I've had .....
when they found that it was difficult, and that there were many different devices to handle, the scope was reduced
Yep. I think Lennart came to that conclusion, then said 'works for me' and stopped doing anything to make it work for others as well, all the while pattimg himself on the back for a job well done and pushing the broken Pile Of Software into almost every Linux distro..
Starting to see any parallels already with systemd?