Yeah this is my exact sentiment. It took a lot easy things and made them require more boilerplate overhead. I'm sure its great for some use cases, but I've never encountered them. I actually like the idea of having a more consistent way to administrate the system, and for some thing systemd does great. But it also involved a lot of real head-scratcher decisions. (What problem was binary log files trying to solve?)

And screw unit files. Is there a helper utility to write and place the unit files for me? That would make me actually shutup about systemd.