The 'overreach' people complain about exists for a good reason. Services need mounts/networks/etc to actually do their job reliably.
If people could discard the 'nyeh' sentiment, use recent releases, and actually engage with the system, they can only find more reliability.
What was once tailored in scripts for each service/job/whatever is now provided by the system
It's about clearly laying out dependencies. Not a lot more.
The only bad experience I've had with systemd is on Ubuntu 18; where I've been forced at work. It's common for systemctl daemon-reexec to be needed, to resuscitate it. It's woefully far behind.
