I certainly can't disagree about the SysV boilerplate, but I also haven't written more than 5 or 6 of those init scripts in the last decade, so it's never seeme

I certainly can't disagree about the SysV boilerplate, but I also haven't written more than 5 or 6 of those init scripts in the last decade, so it's never seemed bad enough to me to ditch it for something completely different. In my current day-to-day, between work machines and my personal machines at home, I've only got to deal with init stuff occasionally, so picking up the Systemd way of doing things will take me a while.