I think the point is one less giant blob of technically open, but extremely obfuscated chunk of questionable usefulness on your system. I'm not sure about you,

I think the point is one less giant blob of technically open, but extremely obfuscated chunk of questionable usefulness on your system. I'm not sure about you, but I've used many distros, with and without systemd, and never had to write a startup script. The package manager takes care of it (or I switch to a different distro.)