I agree with you, being a system admin, systemd has mostly just worked. It tries to be funny sometimes, but because I work on a server I don’t usually deal with some things that a user might have to work with.

Another person mentioned a continued usage of SysVInit on Debian: I’m going to try it myself. See how I like it. If it works for me then I’ll drop SystemD completely and even then I get to stick with Debian!