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Except for systems with very limited resources, systemd or not won't make much of a difference in performance. A lot of tutorials on reading system logs and managing background services will assume that you are using systemd.
I've only ever used distros with systemd, not necessarily with intent, but because it was the default and well-supported. Probably won't switch unless