The corporate ties to Microsoft, Meta, etc. The founder of systemd being ex Microsoft (including working on TPM). He also said that he thinks that people shouldn’t have a choice of init systems and that there should be only one - systemd.

He’s repeatedly made unpopular additions and changes to systemd, forcing them through, despite others protesting. Some of which has corporate capture stink.

That same founder pushing for age verification after having founded a company that specialises in “verifiable integrity”

Some of it you can read here: https://tboteproject.com/systemdfindings/

Other stuff is in the systemd (and probably redhat but I dont use that or Fedora) mailing list a over the years.

My one regret with recently ditching systemd is that I didn’t learn of the shady shit that’s been going on for years and ditch it sooner.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse Red Hat goes and outdoes itself again.