I think my point was that boot times are fast enough already on desktop/laptop, and systemd improvements over that do not justify the costs for me. It would be

I think my point was that boot times are fast enough already on desktop/laptop, and systemd improvements over that do not justify the costs for me. It would be nice to improve boot times on routers, but I don't know if systemd would improve there much. Boot time on desktop with sysvinit: 8-9s, boot time on desktop with systemd: ~6s. Boot time of router (until network is up and usable, maybe made longer by having to setup WiFi): 1m+. PC waiting for router is my usual use-case when I power off everything and then power them back on at another time. I haven't said anything about PC waiting for server, and I agree it wouldn't make sense. I don't have a server with systemd to check, but assuming similar improvement, 4s out of 5m+ you mention is barely 1%.