Those old init scripts were pretty boilerplate and not that hard to write. And in the case of OpenBSD (and maybe other BSDs?) the scripts for /etc/rc.d are usually just a few lines.
With the traditional init system I knew what was going on, and if I didn't, find and grep were your friends. With systemd I'm googling everything every time. The systemctl man page is over 1,100 lines. OpenBSD's rcctl man page is 119 lines.
I'm sure there are use cases for systemd but for running a server that provides a single or a handful of services, it seems like complete overkill.
With the traditional init system I knew what was going on, and if I didn't, find and grep were your friends. With systemd I'm googling everything every time. The systemctl man page is over 1,100 lines. OpenBSD's rcctl man page is 119 lines.
I'm sure there are use cases for systemd but for running a server that provides a single or a handful of services, it seems like complete overkill.