> ... because it means everything more or less has root, and it makes every OS install a special snowflake that is under the hood a giant mixed pile of shit.
In many Linux distros systemd as PID 1 comes to mind...
If anything systemd is a step against "a giant mixed pile of shit" in that the "shit" is single-source now as opposed to cobbled together from 10 different projects.
In many Linux distros systemd as PID 1 comes to mind...