Combining the whole Poettering dictatorship that most distros* baited to,
I'm hoping that crashes and burns in the next five years or so, much like the whole Wayland switch* or Unity. I'm not entirely optimistic though. Just the general mentality from Poettering is pretty insane** when it comes to systemd, so it's really hard to take most of what he says seriously.
* I've yet to hear a compelling argument on the need for the switch, especially when it's clear that if you find (and you will) some program that requires X, you're still stuck running X. It'd be entirely different if Wayland was meant as a drop-in replacement for X functions that could stand on its own as well 99% of the time and came with actual benefits like better security, not needing root, etc.
** "Fun" story, but I noticed I was using 3GB+ of logs on a "new"*** Ubuntu 18.04 install. Turns out that (1) systemd collects a lot more data than syslog (apparently), (2) it's by default supposed to only use up a max of 10% of the root drive (which would be 68GB in my case), (3) that there was a bug report where it was clear that this 10% guarantee isn't entirely honored, and (4) even though the format supports compression it only compares large objects. Having said that, when I tested compressing the logs they readily shrunk down to 120MB, With a dump of all the files compressed, it was down to ~1-2MB. So, when someone brought up a much smaller ridiculous log size (in the dozens of MB, which is still pretty ridiculous) and asked about ways to make the logs smaller, it was basically blown of by Poettering because of (1) system collect a lot more data than syslog.
*** Actually tried the 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 upgrade but beyond breaking in various ways (which was likely my fault with all the ppas), systemd was basically entirely useless with the boot error just dumping me to a terminal and saying "look at the log" which didn't actually include a meaningful error. End result, I ending up installing 18.04 clean (saving my home) and beyond the pain of reinstalling all the programs again, it wasn't that bad.
</rant over>