That only has impact on the security risk surface exposed for your own install and for troubleshooting on your own machine. The maintainers and other coders on the project still have far more space, complexity, and features to cover.
It’s not a death knell by any means, but still a valid cause for concern.
You are allowed to build minimal systemd, which didn’t change that much in many years, no scope creep, consistent, simple.
That only has impact on the security risk surface exposed for your own install and for troubleshooting on your own machine. The maintainers and other coders on the project still have far more space, complexity, and features to cover.
It’s not a death knell by any means, but still a valid cause for concern.