Sure, then you need to write scripts to monitor your daemons and their dependencies, and you may end up writing something likely worse than systemd that just su

Sure, then you need to write scripts to monitor your daemons and their dependencies, and you may end up writing something likely worse than systemd that just suffers from the 'NIH' syndrome. Adjusting to systemd took me a while, but I believe it was worth the effort, and I also believe most people who dislike systemd are just set in their old ways