I was very anti systemd initially but mostly because it meant the many initd scripts I had for different services would no longer be usable or the daemons I had

I was very anti systemd initially but mostly because it meant the many initd scripts I had for different services would no longer be usable or the daemons I had would no longer need to self mange their own pid files. But mostly it was out of fear - knowing how many battle scars each of those shell scripts had learned or forking lines of code had adapted could be lost… fear that maybe systemd would not carry those lessons forward… I let go and it has been pleasantly easier and much less stressing then I imagined… more examples like this are great thanks!