Oh God. I've embarked on a project to try to relearn how Windows works again, and I'm actually having a terrifying time of it.
I"m starting to realize where so many holes in my understanding exist, and abhor how for so long I was just content to accept most things in Windows just happened.
Then I started actually digging into log files and various software distro's and tried to connect all the dots.
Long story short, nothing scares me more now than a computer program that I can't explain why it's doing what it's doing. SystemD falls into that trap for me. It may just be a case of sitting down and reverse engineering it until it clicks, but until then, I'd rather not trust anything important to it.