1. Many people do not like gnome; plus, how do you prove "soon any other desktop environment" is going to jump through the hoops thrown by systemd developers?
KWin (the KDE window manager) will depend on logind at the very least for wayland. ConsoleKit is dead, so anything currently using that will need to look for an replacement soon. That includes basically every DE out there.
Some might come up with a different solution, some may function without logind, some will just require logind like gnome does now. Let's wait and see how that will work out.
2. Not all people, who happen to like some of systemd's features, need to agree with everything provided with systemd. Systemd-style process supervision -- okay perhaps; logind/journald/networkd -- why the hell?
You are aware that logind, journald and networkd are all stand-alone daemons that just happen to integrate well with systemd-PID1 and that live in the same source code repository? You do not want them? Just disable them.
Journald is a bit of an exception here: It basically provides the logging infrastructure for the other parts of the project. So all you can do there is to have it forward the logs to syslog.
3. Removal of journald removes some nic(h?)e features, but also brings about merits, for example reduction of log corruption, which might happen to be one reason people fond of some systemd features feel unsatisfied with systemd. Yes, you have counterarguments, but I have as well; you'd better get a degree in hypnosis before assuming all people will agree with you. And btw, systemd developers seem to like saying something like "don't like it? then make your own", which does not seem suitable now ;)
I entirely fail to see why binary logs are such a big argument, considering that syslog is fully supported. Push your stuff there, RHEL7 apparently even does that by default. You still get more information into your logs that way than you used to. So you win, independent of whether you use journalctl or cat on the files syslog creates to read them.
4. OpenBSD develops system-bsd to mimic systemd interface because of increased hooking of FOSS into systemd (and not necessarily because systemd is good ;). BTW, why do FreeBSD's choice need to be exclusive? Does porting launchd affects the plausiblity of contributing to uselessd? Yes, manpower maybe, and it seems really nice of you to care about FreeBSD's human resources instead of themselves ;D
No, but then FreeBSD is of course free to have several init systems if they care. Traditionally they do seem to prefer a more consistent user-space developed by one team.
5. So now it's about the portability vs. exclusive feature issue? I'm not sure, either, but maybe in a different sense 8)
I do not get what you are going at with this point.
6. So glibc is also the dominant libc on routers and a lot of other "niche" platforms?
Yeap, it is getting more and more common, even on embedded hardware. There is so much software out there that is basically untested on anything but glibc that it makes sense to use that libc if you do not write everything in-house.
7. Again, please earn your degree in hypnosis before you use "we" instead of "I", really ^_^
I used "we" exactly once and I am pretty sure there will be very few people indeed that defend the crontab syntax.