I don't see that as a huge advantage for a few reasons:
1. We're mostly talking about startup (restart, etc...), not shutdown. You can still write your own start script and that's all I've found myself caring about most of the time.
2. Writing a shutdown script is still plenty possible, though in the worst case, you may need an adaptor (and only one of these needs to exist for all apps).
3. Processes that don't handle TERM signals properly should have bugs filed against them to do so.
To be honest, the software that's the biggest pain for me to deal with right now is one that requires a gentle shutdown. I can't always give it one, and my system sometimes crashes and can require a painful recovery.
I'm becoming more of a fan of crash-only software every day for this reason.
1. We're mostly talking about startup (restart, etc...), not shutdown. You can still write your own start script and that's all I've found myself caring about most of the time.
2. Writing a shutdown script is still plenty possible, though in the worst case, you may need an adaptor (and only one of these needs to exist for all apps).
3. Processes that don't handle TERM signals properly should have bugs filed against them to do so.
To be honest, the software that's the biggest pain for me to deal with right now is one that requires a gentle shutdown. I can't always give it one, and my system sometimes crashes and can require a painful recovery.
I'm becoming more of a fan of crash-only software every day for this reason.