PulseAudio also drew a lot of disapproval, until Pipewire appeared and finally did the same thing (and more) well.

Maybe systemd (service management, logind, the DNS resolver, the loggig system, etc) will eventually be re-implemented in a way that does not have the irritating properties of the original systemd.

/* I'd say that systemd feels like typical corporate software. It has a ton of features to check all the requisite boxes, it's not very ergonomic, it does things the way authors wanted and could sell to the corporate customers (who are not the end users), not the way end users prefer. It also used to be bug-ridden for quite some time, after having been pushed upon users. It comes from Red Hat (which is now a part of IBM), so you could say: here's why! But, say, podman also comes from Red Hat, and does not feel like such corporate software; to the contrary, end users enjoy it. */

Pipewire also comes from Red Hat FWIW