The only sysadmin I know with an actual neckbeard (over a foot long) is a 20-year unix/linux admin, and he greatly favours systemd.
Perhaps if you're tired of neckbeards speaking for all sysadmins, you should return the favour and not declare what all neckbeards are saying. A lot of old, experienced admins are for systemd. It's not the young go-getters who are at the top level of distros making the foundational architectural decisions, after all.
Hi, I'm a sysadmin who's fed up with neckbeards (most of who apparently don't know much and refuse to learn) claiming to speak for all sysadmins on this topic.
> large risk and little reward.
It's four years old, and claiming "large risk and little reward" is like listening to someone claim that moving from sendmail to postfix would be a disaster.