Lemmmygrad supposedly is for people who support communism, but when talking to them, they really are supporting totalitarian countries which have nothing to do with communism.

The point is that he explicitly makes this hard. That’s why he is a twat. The issue is that some applications (especially graphical) do get heavily integrated with it which makes it also hard to port them.

Honestly, systemd isn’t bad, because a one concrete program will always be more reliable than bunch of bash scripts tied with rubber bands and bubble gum, but Poettering is a twat by making it (purposefully) non portable.