Sadly, he also is fighting against the only solution to this issue.
There has been work to solve this by registering the session, compositor, and screen locker each with the session manager.
If the screen locker (which now can use any toolkit) crashes, the session manager can try to restart it. If it fails again, it just displays "your unlocker has crashed. To unlock this session, open a tty, login, and type `loginctl session-unlock`"
This solves all the issues, but he (and many others) have been fighting against systemd for a while (which fixes this, and so many other issues, which no competing project ever handled)
There has been work to solve this by registering the session, compositor, and screen locker each with the session manager.
If the screen locker (which now can use any toolkit) crashes, the session manager can try to restart it. If it fails again, it just displays "your unlocker has crashed. To unlock this session, open a tty, login, and type `loginctl session-unlock`"
This solves all the issues, but he (and many others) have been fighting against systemd for a while (which fixes this, and so many other issues, which no competing project ever handled)