@devil: You definitely know more than I since you work on putting together a distro. However, I still dislike systemd and it has nothing to do with the fact that it is new. One of the things that was touched on in your post is the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well, which is one of the things I dislike about systemd.
@dibl: The more technology added to a vehicle, the more things that can go wrong with them and usually are costly to repair. You can have air bags. I would prefer to be able to opt not to have them. They can be lifesavers in situations, but they also cause injuries due to the force of deployment.
Where I live, we are required to get an annual safety inspection for our vehicles. If you don't get one, you can be ticketed. So, even though I don't care for an air bag, if mine doesn't work or has previously deployed without getting replaced ($$$), my vehicle will fail the safety inspection. Therefore, all of the newer safety features will probably have to be in working order as well or your vehicle will not pass the safety inspection.
@melmarker: True, but BSD also does not use something as invasive as systemd AFAIK. Invasive meaning the number of things that systemd controls.
@ralul: I know that Apple uses a base BSD to build OS X, but both links you provided mention only OS X, not BSD