@tasket
Hey, you're right, Linux is a kernel !

Systemd is a component (an extra) on which we need to have our choice to go for it or not.

And obviously you can't compare an extra tool to a kernel (And yet, you can't compare it to coreutils which are the core utilities to interact with the system 😋​)

I don't want to debate for or against Systemd. Yeah it's powerful and I respect its developers because I am using it on many servers. But compared to its alternatives, it's just too complex for me.

It would just be better to have choices and avoid something like vendor-lock in for crucial component.
Also, I want things simpler because my work on these system are already not that trivial.