It's a little weird to reply to someone complaining about administrative problems caused by systemd with "generally sysadmins seem to like it."

That kind of response is exactly why everyone gets emotional in these discussions. Technical problems are one thing but when you gaslight people experiencing and reporting legitimate problems you should not be surprised when they get mad and rip your solution out.

GP is being far kinder to the systemd devs than they deserve, I gave up on the project years ago for exactly this reason.