Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I'm surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster. I'd suggest trying it out.
OC writeup by @arsCynic@piefed.social
There's a good reason sysv isn't on the meme.
If you think it never broke, that's because you weren't doing anything different or creating anything that required it.
That said, systemd had a tendency to break even if you didn't either. But nowadays the bugs are mostly fixed, and the stupidity is contained on parts people mostly don't adopt.
๐ค, I'm not sure what would cause it to break other than a misconfiguration, my setup isn't stock though, my most recent endeavor was migrating to a VTless system, so I do a lot of "different" and non-conventional things. Sure I've had configs break but it's because I made a mistake, that's not the init's fault.