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I mourn it. I've been typing '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' for about twenty years now. Why change it?

Would it really be that hard to have a symlink from /etc/init.d/apache2 to /bin/systemctl and teach systemctl to do the right thing?

There's a generic wrapper which existed for many years "service apache2 restart" will work regardless of the init type.

You can also put "systemctl $1 apache2" in /etc/init.d/apache2 and keep using it. It's really not a big issue.

Be the change you want to see.