What is will be hid from the "users"?
Looks like they are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Bingo.
The reason I do openrc for arch based systems, I have a problem with a functionalitiy absorbing ever growing very complex "init", which develops steadily kernel like features.
The day, systemd tries to replace the linux kernel will be the official death of linux. Atm linux is dying a slow death, caused by an all out attack on the very principle of open source, gnu linux.
You get with systemd a lindows, components which used to be modular and could be replaced, are all absorbed into systemd source. At some point, nobody will understand systemd source any more, because it also pulls in a huge amount of forced dependencies. So the systemd source is only a fraction of the real code base it uses.
Take logind, no bad idea to replace consolekit, but since systemd version 206, logind requires a running systemd voodoo.