Those are the "consumers"...  there was a time when "Linux" was aimed at a different kind of user and indeed worked on by a different kind of hacker, rather than a "developer" on the payroll of some fortune 500 corporation.

Windows is for that type of user and systemd is merely following the same path of adding more and more feature creep, complexity and attack surface, with zero regard for the things they simply don't care about and which don't fit the business ambitions of IBM/Red Hat.  As with gnome project, as far as systemd project is concerned, users are there as guinea pigs and to be spoonfed, restricted and steered - users in fact have sown the seeds of their own destruction over the last two decades, by simply accepting crap and "automagic" solutions from those who cater to laziness and ineptitude.  If someone is making it easy for you and the OS is "free", start questioning it.