And not even there, in my experience; my laptop and desktop reboot once every few weeks or longer, usually for kernel upgrades, and even with legacy init, bios-

And not even there, in my experience; my laptop and desktop reboot once every few weeks or longer, usually for kernel upgrades, and even with legacy init, bios-to-login-screen is not the longest part of that process. For interactive machines, systemd is already a complicated solution for a simple non-problem. For servers, it's worse.