Systemd does something hard, easily arguably necessary, but it does not solve the problems well enough. I have similar feelings about containerization on Linux. I feel it comes down to lack of taste, or perhaps just the factioned nature of Linux distributions which are driven mostly by maintaining packaging instead of an operating system. Loo

Experimenting with FreeBSD has been a breath of fresh air. Things I've come to expect to take an extended amount of time figuring out just work out of the box.