I don't know about your experiences, but systemd is leaking preconceived notions and self-imposed limitations like a broken sieve where one is left to sift manually through documentation and bug-reports, collecting and evaluating rules, exceptions and idiosyncratic notions to determine whether systemd will do what one wants.

Latest example: I have a service I want running, so I set it to Restart=always. Read the long Restart= documentations - seems ok. Does it work?

Failure 1: Well.. you also need appropriate RestartSec/StartLimitInterval. Ok, I I set it up. Does it work?

Failure 2: Well.. restart doesn't actually apply to failed dependencies, so .. don't have dependencies that fail, ok? That's not a bug. [1][2]

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1312 [2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/213185/restarting-s...