It really depends on what you need. Do you want to setup a daemon that starts when a specific network interface is online? This is infinitely easier in systemd

It really depends on what you need. Do you want to setup a daemon that starts when a specific network interface is online? This is infinitely easier in systemd. Defining a unit file (a daemon) is a matter of a trivial definition file and a couple of commands, can’t get more accessible than that. We’re still talking Linux distro users, not your run of the mill consumer of course. Do you want to master using all features that systemd has to offer? There’s obviously a learning curve. I’m not arguing in favor of systemd _over_ crontab, but there’s no need to bash on systemd which is a perfectly fine piece of software that does what it says (whether it does too much is a different topic).