As a grey/gray beard, I fought long and hard for $reasons against any distros that switched to using systemd. I lost that fight and although I wouldn't say I will ever fully embrace systemd (for the same $reasons), I accept that it is "the way forward" chosen by so many flavors of *nix that I might as well suck it up as the de-facto way of doing things. To be clear - I'm not salty about it because, meh - life's too short to take a teaspoon to the incoming tide. I've upvoted this submision and bookmarked the link for easy reference.
That is all.