Except, they are. Pottering is the front man who does the dirty work for IBM and Microsoft to take over Linux by forcing distros to adopt systemd.
Those of us old enough to remember the "vote" that resulted in Debian going to Systemd remember it was almost at gunpoint.
Death to systemd, long live FOSS culture
the internet as we know is dying.
A new net will be born from it's ashes.
Either bitch about it, or let's make the future net to our liking.
those who do not adapt die, the one universal law.