Technical & 'religious' complaints

"the use of magic functions is bad"
Code reuse was a goal

"switching from /etc/rc isn't the BSD way"
A common 'religious' argument.  Robert Elz (a long-time BSD contributer) says:
"[the BSD way is to] find something that looks
to be better (in the opinion of the small group
 deciding such things), implement it, and ship it"

In this case, the 'small group' was the NetBSD core team