> 2) Less modular than any init system out there. Having everything (including a dhcp deamon soon) in PID 1 is not modular just because you can configure it.

I can understand the issue that people have with systemd swallowing more and more functionality, but this fact is just false.

dhcp is in /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd, which is not the systemd binary running as PID 1 (/usr/lib/systemd/systemd/systemd).

    chris@raspberrypi /usr/lib/systemd $ ls -la systemd systemd-networkd
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 907340 Apr 14 23:10 systemd
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329604 Apr 14 23:09 systemd-networkd
    chris@raspberrypi /usr/lib/systemd $ ./systemd --version

systemd 212 +PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ +SECCOMP -APPARMOR