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systemd haters are a bunch of morons who, when they heard about the "UNIX philosophy" of having many small utilities that communicate via plain text, took it as some kind of gospel from the heavens rather than just one of many possible ways to design software. That's why they were angry at systemd centralizing a bunch of core userspace functionality - they'd rather have the functionality spread over a bazillion projects, no matter the maintenance cost, because muh UNIX philosophy. Most people who participated in the systemd shitstorm just kept repeating it like some kind of magical phrase even though it was clear they had zero understanding of the relevant technical issues. It was quite painful to read these forum threads and see these retards intrude on the mailing lists where the adults were talking.
A contributing factor is that Lennart Poettering, the author of systemd, had already gathered a lot of ill will towards him due to the audio situation a couple years prior. He wrote an audio daemon called PulseAudio that, while a good idea in theory, got rolled out by distros way too soon and with too little testing, resulting in a bunch of people's sound breaking. I think that most of the blame here is on the distros, but it was easier for people to villify Lennart.

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