Systemd, nightmare or opportunity?

As those of you who use Linux may know, more and more Linux distributions
are moving away from their init systems, and are moving to systemd. A
consortium of interdependent system programs that replace not only
init/startup, but a whole range of other functionality that were
previously handled by independent software in the unix line (do one thing,
do one thing good) that I feel loosely forms the philosophy that also
underlies capability discipline. On one side, it would seem that a move
away from this philosophy would be a move away from anything POLA related.
On the other side however, this also might provide an
opportunity/challenge for people concerned with least authority on the
language level. If we could come up with a drop-in least authority rewrite
of systemd in a capability secure language (David-Sarah might have a clue
about what language to pick ;-) ), this could definetely become the basis
for a much more robust version of Linux, that could easily be addapted by
all those distro's now moving towards this horrible systemd architecture.

Any thoughts?