There is really no point in trying to sell any other point of view or philosophy or priorities to such people. They don't understand, and often think they do understand and judge you to be out of touch and irrational, or at least impractical.
Same exact thing with systemd. It was designed to solve a certain kind of problem, in way that is more or less functional enuogh, and more or less fine enough in a vacuum. But it's not in a vacuum. It's in a preexisting ecosystem, and essentially requires everything else to change to work with it to the exclusion of anything else. (this last is technically deniable, but not in reality. Saying "we don't prevent everyone from doing 2x all future maintenance work" does not meaningfully address the fact that no one will choose to do that. All package maintainers choose a paradigm to support, not both.)
Basically, the biggest problem with systemd is it's an inconsiderate dick.
But if you don't administer a wide variety of systems and a wide variety of software, and don't value that variety, and don't care about the future enough to let it affect your behavior today, then you don't even perceive that inconsideration, and so do not think that systemd, or it's architect, or it's lobbyists, are dicks.
Systemd has lots of good ideas, and is now mature enough in most places. Unfortunately, the authors of systemd have the tendency to replace virtually everything in Linux with their own version, designed for their own purpose, without listening to how other people use those things.
And you can't really disentangle parts of systemd just using a distro.
So system administrators not using Linux for a desktop got tired of constantly fighting the breaking things, and just threw it out completely.
If systemd only was an init system, and had stayed out of the rest (syslog, DNS, network management, directory layout, you name it), and would just have done the init system job really well, it wouldn't really be controversial. But with the "you need to do it my way, I don't give a shit for your use case is, and I don't give a shit if I break your system" attitude shoving it down the throat of everyone, they didn't really make friends with many people who run more complicated systems.