Snarling little Upstart

The ubuntification of RedHat continues.  Upstart comes to RHEL6 and derivatives (including derivatives of derivatives, like OEL).

While perusing the net and stalling for clue on upstart, I ran across one brochure piece:  Why Upstart Is Good For Your Distro, in which the author says:

• Helen is an experienced UNIX user, with multiple years of experience. She does not wish to have to relearn that which she has learned already, and would rather continue using the tools that she is used to and only learn the newer ones when necessary.
• Matthieu is a distribution developer who maintains several packages that provide services or perform tasks. He does not want to have to update his packages until he is ready to take advantage of new features or abilities, his existing scripts should continue to work unmodified in their original locations.

The thing is, he says it in his brochure piece as if Upstart provides those features.  Did he see /etc/inittab?

# inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel.
#
# ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM.

Apparently retaining compatibility with the industry standard is the first casualty of the Shiny Things Gold Rush infection that has now spread to RedHat.  Leave that half-baked new-is-instantly-better crap for the Fedora derivatives that don't make it to the enterprise product, if you want to preserve compatibility.