As the trolls will surely tell you, that is how systemd works. it actually is a bunch of binaries, and not a single one. However, they will also conveniently forget that the biggest issue is that all these binaries have huge interdependencies; if you need one, like for instance some desktop decides to depend for some stupid reason on logind, you'll get the whole enchilada. And that, is the single biggest issue with systemd. It has absorbed many projects, and is even trying to break the kernel (by integrating a DBUS that only works with systemd, or removing firmware upload functionality so that only systemd will be able to do it). It is not an init system - it is an interdependent bunch of overcomplicated code, made non-modular and impossible to replace by design.

Its not a good start when it is the third attempt, three years on a row.
And I wonder how many of these (microscopic for tablets) 1 million sales are due to corporate contracts?

Well, maybe Lenart or Kay would have a worse reception, but not by much.