Why would you punish yourself with various *BSDs when you can have OpenRC and more advanced ports on Gentoo? Do people really associate systemd, Gnome and other nuisances with Linux?
The metric I like to use for adopting new processes / services is pretty simple. I have _____ problem. What tool solves that problem for me.
In my case systemd solves nothing and creates more.
I seem to recall the same line being used about (GNU/)Linux at one point.
I actually prefer from-source package installs because I get a higher degree of control over configuration options.