Most don't know anything about it. Those who jump in to defend it constantly will keep calling anti-systemd people names even after it has a hard dependency on an IBM AI.
The only people I see defending systemd is normally due to baseless claims.
My personal issue with it is that logs are stored in a database that (unless it's changed) the documentation is the implementation. There are a few places where people have reverse engineered the design to document it, but it would have been much better for them to use a documented format like sqlite.
Yes, thanks for confirming what I wrote... Uh, wait a moment, what? Most Linux users know nothing about systemd? Are we talking about the same Linux, the OS whose main users are developers and sysadmins?
> even after it has a hard dependency on an IBM AI
What are you on about? Nothing of the sort has happened.