> I didn't tell you not to use. I said I don't see any reason for me to use it. I prefer the simplicity of text based LOG files over binary files requiring that

> I didn't tell you not to use. I said I don't see any reason for me to use it. I prefer the simplicity of text based LOG files over binary files requiring that you use the systemd API that was changing regularly the last time I touched it. Modern syslog implementations (e.g. rsyslog) will write journald log events in plaintext, if you're desperate to have plain-text-on-disk.