If that decline in commits also came with a decline in new features implemented or chosen for future I'd say this was a change for the better. Watching feature creep taking hold of the SystemD project was truly a horrid thing to behold and is now a disaster waiting to happen because of this.
Seriously, if I had to point towards one thing that I really hate in modern Linux is that the developers rarely have the guts to take appropriate action with an abomination like SystemD by ether starting from scratch, reverting to a much earlier version before things went badly wrong or doing some very significant changes to undo mistakes done during the design of the base architecture. It's not even the first time it's lead developer, Lennart Pottering, has presided over a mess like this. He's previously been the lead developer of PulseAudio, which is most famous for being a non-working replacement for an actually working system, called the Open Sound System, created simply because the OSS was going under a proprietary license and they would have had to create their own fork of it to continue using it.
Seriously, if I had to point towards one thing that I really hate in modern Linux is that the developers rarely have the guts to take appropriate action with an abomination like SystemD by ether starting from scratch, reverting to a much earlier version before things went badly wrong or doing some very significant changes to undo mistakes done during the design of the base architecture. It's not even the first time it's lead developer, Lennart Pottering, has presided over a mess like this. He's previously been the lead developer of PulseAudio, which is most famous for being a non-working replacement for an actually working system, called the Open Sound System, created simply because the OSS was going under a proprietary license and they would have had to create their own fork of it to continue using it.
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