I may have spewed some gibberish before as to why, but never really articulated the reason(s).
In one simple image (besides the obvious recent happenings with systemd), I present to you this. This was the last straw for me.
It just seems that systemd is moving way beyond what it should be doing and going against the greater philosophy of unix being; "Make each program do one thing well"
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A little reading to complete:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html