It allowed us to remove literally thousands of lines of code, including a bunch of rewritten init scripts, because apparently "simple" SysV scripts still have p

It allowed us to remove literally thousands of lines of code, including a bunch of rewritten init scripts, because apparently "simple" SysV scripts still have plenty of traps for the developers that start to rear their ugly heads when used with say Pacemaker. I dislike its "let's just reinvent features that worked entirely fine" (like journalctl binary logs WITH NO FUCKING INDEXING, so they are slower than text files for usual operation somehow), but at its core competence it's extremely useful.