1. That's why you should assign a CVE even for "lower" exploit. This way, people who work in that field look at it and can figure out it's worse when it is.
2. That is still a terrible mark on systemd's procedures that such a thing is not reviewed by someone who will consider an exploit through all lenses, and added with the no-CVE issue from above it makes it even worse.
When systemd is taking over more and more critical parts of the system, and getting deployed to most linux distros, it's only fair that we expect more of them and put them under more scrutiny. That they trip on such a "trivial" case is kind of scary.