Why oh why is it that the naysayers are the ones that has to move on and start over?!
Why could not Poettering and CO create their own distro and prove it functional from the ground up first?!
Damn it, look at how it is done at the kernel. New subsystems are maintained outside of the main tree for years while the bugs etc are hammered out.
Poettering and crew is not just replacing init with systemd, they are replacing everything between the kernel and the web browser with something new. This should really require that it is developed in isolation until the feature creep has come to a halt, and the bugs can be found and hammered out.
The latest changes include stuff like ADSL controls in networkd and folding power management into logind.
It barely makes sense that this has found its way into virtual noname distros and such. But that RH and Canonical is putting them into releases is whacko.