to be fair, that post is 6 years old, and quite a bit has changed since then. for example microsoft switched to become a service provider and gave away windows for free. they simply don't have the need or motivation to subvert linux when they make most of their money from their cloud business, doesn't really matter what client people use for their cloud office running on azure, the only part of windows really making money is OEM/corporate, and that's tied to services again.
heck there might come a time they do their own linux distribution like red hat to offload even more development costs and just sell services. or think android, same thing.
systemd.. well. I'm a blackpill fag, but every coin has 2 sides. the more they bloat it to take over the user space and make it un-maintainable on purpose, they have the same issue, their own development becomes more expensive and unmaintainable. which means major issues are not a matter of if but when, and afterwards they either have to clean up their own shit, or more likely there's a broad effort to get rid of the shit parts (call it wake up call, long over due trimming, whatever), it's still open source.
in the end all it takes is one dude saying "this is shit, I'm doing my own thing", that's how linux came to be after all.
also, unrelated but current woke culture won't exist forever. inevitably the pendulum is gonna swing back hard enough lot of projects get cleansed (or forked beforehand when they turn to shit due to incompetent maintainers and smothering CoC) and it's gonna take a lot of woke tech companies with them if they haven't already folded because their woke rot has chased out all competence. you can see this effect slowly happening in videogames, just look at blizzard, or AAA in general.
so I wouldn't throw in the towel just yet, but some vigilance is never a bad idea.
