As a multi-platform Unix developer and someone often responsible for system administration, I can assure you that systemd does in fact "standardizes [sic] a lot

As a multi-platform Unix developer and someone often responsible for system administration, I can assure you that systemd does in fact "standardizes [sic] a lot of pain points." It being good is where we certainly disagree. Red Hat funding the product means more than it being actively developed. It also implies control over the offering's compatibility, functionality, and direction. It means control over everything an OS using it can do as all processes will have systemd as its parent.