@Okanogen @sonny @pid_eins Same reason why we’re doing away with Xorg and switching to Wayland.

Because despite the old-school init systems being touted as simple, elegant, stable and just way better than systemd (by some people, anyway), you don’t see a lot of people rushing to maintain and develop them.

OpenRC is pretty much the only viable modern non-systemd init system for general use, but it’s being developed with Gentoo in mind.

@Okanogen Things rarely get thrown out deliberately in FOSS though. You either have people who are willing to work on a thing, or you don't, and then it becomes abandonware.

It's not like there's a secret cabal that prevents developers from working on other init systems and keeping other pieces of software compatible with them. It's just that the majority of people working on Linux have decided to move on. And democracy often means accepting the majority vote, even if you disagree with it.