Loosely yes, but I rarely see anyone expound on it beyond “It’s bloated and therefore bad”. I also rarely see specific criticisms outside of that like journalctl being slow or using a binary format for log files.

This is by far the most nuanced critique of systemd I’ve ever seen. I don’t fully agree with its conclusions personally, but I think it makes a lot of good and valid points about its architecture and its flaws. It feels like such a breath for fresh air in comparison to the most vocal anti-systemd types who vaguely and angrily gesture at “scope creep” and refuse to elaborate further.

That was obviously a joke though, and it wasn’t even OP.

That KDE Plasma 5 is finally usable and stable, after having decided to stop pushing the ridiculous plasmoids on the user […] is like having an old whore finally becoming a respectable woman.

Yeah, I stopped reading here.