I moved away from Linux as soon as systemd was everywhere. I first migrated to Slackware, and then to FreeBSD. I wouldn't call this kind of move overreaction.

Some people just want to know exactly what is running on their system, and how it works. That's one of the reasons I don't use Windows.

(I do confess that I never took the time to learn systemd properly, but I highly appreciate it for introducing me to the BSD world).