Comment by miladyincontrol

Blatantly not the person you're asking, but once you go past basic service management trying to do it just about anywhere else is an absolute and total nightmare. People who have major problems with systemd more than anything just ever seem confused, often vastly overestimating systemd's actual scope.

The reality to many is its the simplest simple way to handle some very complex tasks, and the vast majority of it is still all so very very much optional even in the most 'systemd heavy' distros.