lee writes:
I don't mind this idea. Yet when I disable something, I expect it to be disabled.
This is another terminology issue, which I think should be viewed separately from the merits/demerits of systemd itself. And I'm inclined to agree that the terms are poorly chosen.
I guess the concept of 'mask' is as in to disguise, as in to hide. For me, that's two steps of abstraction and I don't normally infer the second from the first. So it throws me too.