Can we as a community move on from this? If someone feels like forking a distro "because systemd", let them, and it's only newsworthy if it's successful.

We could also move on from the accusations of "betraying the Unix philosophy". You know what else is the Unix philosophy? User-based security model. Fixed-length strings without overflow checks. World-readable passwords, badly hashed. Unencrypted remote shell with host-based trust. Maybe systemd is good, maybe systemd is bad, but accusing it of merely changing things is not a valid argument.