I personally have no beef with systemd and completely agree with you that having a simple and standard way of composing services/daemons is a wonderful thing, a

I personally have no beef with systemd and completely agree with you that having a simple and standard way of composing services/daemons is a wonderful thing, and one that was sorely lacking for a veryong time indeed. My impression from the systemd debate is that those that are against it feel that way because of the breadth of systemd - it's much more that "just" about service units.