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Why are you trying to get rid of systemd on your servers?
Why wouldn't you? OpenRC FTW.
Cuz it's annoying to work with (it usually breaks stuff because it's purposefully incompatible, and they have to force their way), it's slower than alternatives, it is a mess, and I don't like its philosophy.
SystemD is the Windows of Linux, and it has already brought enough problems. Sadly, all the major distros went all in on it, so a lot of software is developed with increasing dependency on SystemD's non standard systems.
Also I don't trust Poettering at all. This guy is antithetical to free, open and standard software, and he himself has said it.
And on top of all that, they went and folded so quickly to implement stuff like age verification when Linux wasn't even tied by those laws. Their excuse was that they were doing it to set a good precedent and a safe standard for it on Linux, but their implementation was unsafe and flawed. When pointed out, Poettering himself said that why bother with security, because that data is "not important".
TL;DR: I have many concerns with SystemD's management and philosophy, and their software often breaks, causes issues, isn't compliant with standards, has security holes and is slow.