Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.

I guess literally anyone who knows it’s a bloated idiosyncratic pile of garbage which introduces unnecessary attack surface. Guessing you’ve never used any of the alternate modern init systems.

I maintain all kinds of crap, some systemd, some non-systemd, some straight up busybox. Systemd is not easier to use for almost any of my use cases. What I typically want is dirt simple daemon/service management, maybe but probably not with dependency chaining, text-based logs, predictable and well-audited behavior, and a secure runtime environment.