Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I'm surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster. I'd suggest trying it out.
OC writeup by @arsCynic@piefed.social
Having run both systemd and sysv, they both never really break in my experience unless it's self inflicted. I don't think I've ever just had one break randomly, the systemd recovery environment is much better when there is a breakage, and I'm not sure the boot times are really any different in my setup. Maybe if I tried something a little more parallel than sysv they'd be faster but eh.