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Pipewire broke me lots of times during its development and rollout, and that's okay, because new software has bugs and in some of my other use cases "hey it's a lot better than Jack". What I'm not going to do is carry a grudge against the maintainer for decades?

I've been using Linux since Slackware installed from a pile of floppy disks. I'm extremely happy with systemd (desktop and server) and view it as one of the most important UX advancements ever made in the Linux sysadmin space. It replaced a smorgasbord of broken nonsense with a unified and thoughtful system that is objectively superior to what it replaced. I suspect a lot of the extreme reaction to systemd is not just resistance to change, but based on an emotional attachment to the rag-tag heterogeneity it made obsolete.