I fear you missunderstood me: I think systemd with all the integrated features and tools is great, having all the features and tools is such a huge benefit for a professionell sysadmin who has to connect to and administrate lots of customer server every day.
But that is my opinion, I fully accept that people don't like systemd and that's the great thing with Linux: If you don't like a component then you are free to drop it and use something else. So have fun with your systemd free systems!