Systemd has simplified my life on a few occasions, and it seems to be reliable from what I can tell. At the end of the day if I can get the OS to do what I want in a relatively simple matter, that’s all I care about.

In all seriousness, I’ve yet to encounter a situation where Systemd made any meaningful negative difference in my Linux experience.

I’ve never had problems with any init system, Systemd or otherwise.