[boring_twenties]

> Plus, if you don’t like it, reconfigure it. It’s only the default, after all.

Or -- and I know this is crazy but hear me out here -- if you don't like it, and it brings nothing but problems to the table, just don't use it at all.

[LtWorf]

What problems?

[hedora]

For me, literally everything it does is a problem, including:

The file format is not text, and I use it under Linux, which is good at processing text files.

The command line arguments are insane.

Bad handling of log lines emitted at system crash.

Broke an entire prod network’s observability stack because ubuntu replaced syslogd with it in the middle of an lts support cycle.

Brings in a systemd dependency, which causes 100x more problems than this.