This sounds a bit like the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" (perhaps today better to say spouse or SO). You're damned whatever you answer. Having

This sounds a bit like the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" (perhaps today better to say spouse or SO). You're damned whatever you answer. Having said that, I think systemd can be an excellent tool suite. The thing is that often in lagacy production environments (which much of the world runs on) one must use what is available, and built in toola like cron are always there.