FWIW, we use inittab for everything and it works for us.
I agree that daemontools has advantages in environments where people need to be able to stop and start servers without being root. I also agree that if it weren't a djb app some of us wouldn't have the knee-jerk "run away quickly!" reaction to it that we do. ;)
I do think that calling inittab "evil" is a bit much. It's inconvenient in some situations, but it works just fine.
