Using SystemD to manage your services easier if that's what you want is nice (aka, if your SystemD setup depends on a service, that's fine). It's not great if

Using SystemD to manage your services easier if that's what you want is nice (aka, if your SystemD setup depends on a service, that's fine). It's not great if the service depends on SystemD, because then it can't be used with other init systems (without patching / forking, at least).