Your understanding of the Unix Philosophy is missing what many consider its most important caveat.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
As summarized by Salus, Unix is a collection of programs that each do one thing only and do it well.  System D is a grab-bag of lots of functionality and it does not do any of them particularly well, hence why people say that System D is not in the Unix Philosophy.

I agree that the old style Init system had a lot of issues and needed to be replaces, however, I do not agree that System D is the solution.  I would have preferred a properly designed, layered and modular init system instead of the all-in-one solution  of System D. ie. a bare metal server used to run containers would have the same root level module but different application specific modules as a GUI based tablet.  system D was designed for GUI based systems, and is overkill/inappropriate for back-end servers running docker.

Anyways, another good show, and stop selling yourself short, I think you are up to a double-digit number of listeners by now!