I only use linux on servers, and have been doing that since I used redhat and slack in the '90s. After that I moved to FreeBSD and since about 15 years, I'm on Debian.

sysvinit scripts are horrible to create and operate. It's easy to set tup dependencies for network or other services. I haven't used it to run cron-like tasks, or inetd-type servers, but I don't have a need for that.