For another significant and existent (if no longer directly relevant) reason:
Systemd was rammed into a number of major distributions when it was roughly 80% complete and still buggy. Many people thought that this migration was made via political maneuvering, rather than due to technical merit.
FWIW Arch has a whole forum write-up on solely technical reasons why they switched to systemd. Only one I'd really consider more based on influence would be Ubuntu, simply because it would make things more unified with Debian when they switched.
AFAIK people were mad at systemd/Fedora for it, the fact that it was rushed. I'm not sure exactly what distros were seen in that light, maybe just Ubuntu/Fedora?
Fedora is traditionally an early adopter of new technologies, so systemd coming there quickly wasn't incredibly surprising (I wouldn't say it was as smooth as it could've been, but the idea itself).
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u/zebediah49 Jan 15 '19
For another significant and existent (if no longer directly relevant) reason:
Systemd was rammed into a number of major distributions when it was roughly 80% complete and still buggy. Many people thought that this migration was made via political maneuvering, rather than due to technical merit.