Once upon a time, Steve Grubb sgrubb@redhat.com said:
Yes, as one of the authors of xinetd, I pointed this out long ago. But they said they were not trying to replace xinetd and if people want a more full featured experience, use xinetd.
Except... wasn't there a big push to replace xinetd with systemd socket activation in Fedora? In fact, xinetd was orphaned and retired, so the only way to have that kind of functionality in Fedora is through systemd, so systemd needs to support the same functionality.