> I’ve seen is that it tries to be too much which violates the Unix philosophy of small tools doing a single thing well

Usually the same crowd that makes this complaint about systemd also have a strong affinity to Xorg and dislike to Wayland.

Xorg has a print server among many other things. Adhering to the UNIX philosophy is certainly something it does not.

This is about as correct as saying http is bloated because there are printer protocols using REST.