Mars is getting nuked again‽
or if you prefer it in video form: https://youtu.be/sm9BFRP93_k
yes the video is about setting titanium on fire, be patient.
(also no the study is some crackpot bullshit, the paper is funny and the video is even funnier because Explosions & Fire is an amazing channel)
I mean, systemd-networkd and systemd-timesyncd are both completely independent and are not required by systemd. I use connman and chronyd on my arch box and systemd gives not one fuck.
There's still some totally valid concern to be had over how bundled a lot of this stuff is, but it's not all one big blob.