Add enough machines, and "narrow corner cases" happens all the time and at all the wrong moments.
The bigger point is that there are lots of these "narrow corner cases" all over a typical SysV-init setup, not least due to tons of badly written init scripts. The number of times services have failed to start
To produce a systemd alternative, creating something that competes favorably with SysV-init is insufficient. Today you also need to demonstrate how you deal with those corner cases, or why they don't matter - many of us have no intention of going back to the bad old days.
The bigger point is that there are lots of these "narrow corner cases" all over a typical SysV-init setup, not least due to tons of badly written init scripts. The number of times services have failed to start
To produce a systemd alternative, creating something that competes favorably with SysV-init is insufficient. Today you also need to demonstrate how you deal with those corner cases, or why they don't matter - many of us have no intention of going back to the bad old days.