I'm a little lost on systemd myself. Seems like an attempt to solve the problem of startup complexity by...adding complexity. Maybe I'm just getting old and gr

I'm a little lost on systemd myself. Seems like an attempt to solve the problem of startup complexity by...adding complexity. Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy. But I have a Linux 2.0 kernel machine that has been running a LAMP stack for over 10 years that boots in one tenth the time my Ubu 16.04 machines - that run the same LAMP stack - do. Ah for the old and simple days...