Skepticism != Cynicism.
When the distinction becomes blurred, you no longer have skepticism.
All things should be questioned. That doesn't mean forever.
All things should be subject to scrutiny. That doesn't mean wasting cycles.
Once an issue is settled, it's settled until new data brings it back into question.
Things should be fixed before they break, not after, but only with something verifiably better. If it's not verified, it's not better.
Enough of the common sense that you yung 'uns lack. Back to the boot process.
The original boot process was never great. A very limited range of states, temperamental scripts, poorly documented behaviours, wide variation in precise behaviour between implementations, potential vulnerabilities, ghastly completion time, horrible dependencies, etc.
This has been replaced with an alternative that is new, shiny and creates exactly the same problems but in a completely new way.
A pox on both your houses.
Still, six is better than the two runlevels offered by Windows, which are even slower, even less stable and even less secure. What's worse than pox. I know, Ebola on Windows.
The lot of you are a disgrace. All three systems are less designed than congealed. And the Unix man pages were written by Vogons. Drunk Vogons. Practicing poetry whilst smashing snails with hammers.