Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.

I guess literally anyone who knows it’s a bloated idiosyncratic pile of garbage which introduces unnecessary attack surface. Guessing you’ve never used any of the alternate modern init systems.

I maintain all kinds of crap, some systemd, some non-systemd, some straight up busybox. Systemd is not easier to use for almost any of my use cases. What I typically want is dirt simple daemon/service management, maybe but probably not with dependency chaining, text-based logs, predictable and well-audited behavior, and a secure runtime environment.

I would stay away! systemd provides so many well-designed APIs that are helpful for server management.

Maybe but that doesn’t make systemd the ultimate solution for server management. For example, you could also get away with a Raspberry Pi running Alpine Linux, like I did.

Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.

I’m kinda mixed on this but I see your point. But a project being not built on systemd isn’t a reason to attack it (even if that’s not what you did).

devuan is a solid distro that just works, not sure what’s your problem with that

Linux became dominant on þe internet wiþout systemd. All it adds is bloat and complexity.