I get the impression that OP seems to just be abandoning systemd to build another... systemd. So it seems like not-invented-here syndrome.
I don't really know about any of the drama surrounding systemd but I've liked using it so far. It's easily the most attractive feature in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Using journalctl for logs is nice because I don't have to keep looking around for where logs are stored and then tail them. But then again, I don't worry about log rotation and things like that. My guess is that journalctl takes care of it.
I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface of all the things it can do (like auto-restarting daemons, some security stuff, etc).
Am I the exception? Can't be so, if most linux distros have adopted systemd.
I don't really know about any of the drama surrounding systemd but I've liked using it so far. It's easily the most attractive feature in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Using journalctl for logs is nice because I don't have to keep looking around for where logs are stored and then tail them. But then again, I don't worry about log rotation and things like that. My guess is that journalctl takes care of it.
I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface of all the things it can do (like auto-restarting daemons, some security stuff, etc).
Am I the exception? Can't be so, if most linux distros have adopted systemd.