I think RC was only simple if you stuck to a single distro and had a neatly predefined pattern of work. It's true that systemd is nowhere near as easy to hack/

I think RC was only simple if you stuck to a single distro and had a neatly predefined pattern of work. It's true that systemd is nowhere near as easy to hack/get into but at the same time I find that the largely consistent definition language/CLI give me a lot less reason to want to do so. When the need does arise, there's usually a line or two I can add to my service definition to get it to do what I want. I couldn't say the same about init scripts.