This has not been my experience at all. The systemd project seems to take extreme care to adhere to the spec when implementing features. They don’t adhere to “this is how it used to work” which is where the bulk of the issue seems to be. The big controversy was when systemd-resolved implemented the spec to the letter and broke people’s assumption that listing DNS servers in order means they’ll be queried in that order.
> The systemd project seems to take extreme care to adhere to the spec when implementing features. They don’t adhere to “this is how it used to work” which is where the bulk of the issue seems to be.
Really, the issue here is that "how it used to work" is mostly unambiguous, but I have no clue what you mean by "the spec", and I suspect you're actually referring to a multitude of specs, several of which were only created in the process of writing the relevant systemd components.
