Hence the hate that systemd has, and always will have, as long as there exists a community of people who use Linux because it is a Unix-like operating system.
But, Linux is versatile enough that everyone can have their own little fiefdom. The real rage came in years ago when tools that were widely used by all suddenly became reliant upon systemd to function at all. Thankfully, in the time since, enough development has happened that mostly people are free to choose what they do and don't want to run again. The manner in which it was foisted upon the community, however, was one that hopefully will be remembered as being far more aggressive than should be repeated in the future.
But, I imagine that as long as Lennart Poettering walks the Earth, we likely will have yet another similarly awful episode.
Seems like we're in a pretty good place now, with separate development efforts by and for the people who are actually interested in anything but systemd.
You might not need the features, but someone does, and putting it all in one places means everyone can use the same tool, and nobody has to learn 10 different systems for slightly different tasks.