This take is so tired. No, systemd was no political movement pushed onto distros against their will. The people who actually develop and maintain distros chose to adopt it because it solved real problems they had and simplified their lives a lot.

No, systemd is not monolithic, no it does not ignore the Unix philosophy. It is a suite of independent but coherent tools developed in a monorepo. This is actually much closer to Unix and the BSDs than what the Linux ecosystem does.

Small, secure virtual machines are becoming more important in the age of insecure AI agents and buggy AI-generated code. Bloated, inflexible and bug-prone Systemd is unsuitable for such environments which necessitates the use of classic Unix init systems. Dinit is a good choice there and it'd much better to use it in desktop and other environments in place of systemd to avoid cumbersome fragmentation and maintenance.