Poettering announces tool in new systemd version to replace sudo
systemd was proposed as the default init system by Poettering about 11 years ago. Its adoption by many GNU/Linux distributions caused a great deal of angst, with some developers even quitting the projects to which they had contributed for a long time.
Some Debian developers who preferred the older init system, sysVinit, forked the distribution and set up Devuan where sysV is still the default.