Well, it's behaving as documented and following the semantics of your unit file. Though I agree the default is poor, if it bites you more than once, write a st

Well, it's behaving as documented and following the semantics of your unit file. Though I agree the default is poor, if it bites you more than once, write a standard template to reuse for your unit files and/or write a wrapper that calls reset-failed for you. Systemd is far from perfect, but this is a minor nuisance.