Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I’ve been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I’m surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.
Honestly for desktop usage it doesn’t really matter. All inits have their idiosyncrasies (“A stop job is running for Session”/logging hell on openrc/etc). But for managing a fleet of bare-metal servers I find systemd to be the best, most polished one out of the lot.
Which is a big reason why the systemd dominance irks me.
Fair enough. My experience lies mainly with the former so I cannot argue this.
It matters to distro maintainers, which is why it’s everywhere now.
Because systemd is exclusive.
It’s also the most unsuitable for a server of all 5 of them.