My first experience with systemd was similar, it was in Fedora 15 and it basically was such an incredible source of frustration. Seems to be quite serviceable

My first experience with systemd was similar, it was in Fedora 15 and it basically was such an incredible source of frustration. Seems to be quite serviceable on the happy path, and I quite like it for desktop linux honestly. But I find it's usually a bit too opaque and "magic" for servers; even if it's causing less and less issues. I liken the issue to the same one pulseaudio had: a software ecosystem that is poorly designed but foisted together into a perfectly serviceable product by incredible amounts of effort for all involved in its development and release to public.