> If systemd is the reason, there are several good distros without systemd (I run Void Linux in particular).
There are people in the FreeBSD camp that actually do advocate for something like systemd in FreeBSD. See "The Tragedy of systemd": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
Something like systemd might be useful. There are some aspects of systemd that make sense and are useful.
There's other stuff like eliminating boot interactivity, so you can't hit ctrl-c or any other keys to cancel waiting for dhcp on network ports that aren't plugged in, that really bother me.
I also don't think a FreeBSD init/system supervision system would go and re-implement dns, ntp, and whatever else, including redoing security mistakes from decades ago.
Is there a text version of that?
no, but here's the sum up: "systemd is actually good, the current init system in freebsd is severely lacking under many aspects, systemd is more of a system manager rather than just an init system, that's actually a good thing and actually we'd need something like systemd in freebsd".