Took me a few years but I'm finally starting to come to terms with it. I'm principally against it though.

yup only pain there.

I always hear people hating on it but I love it

It's fine once you get past the learning curve.

systemd is the pinnacle of init systems.

Gets a lot of hate for being bloated but the fact is it's all opt-in and everything fucking works great and is very well documented.

Already not pain for me ;) I recommend usefull commands:

systemctl cat

... status ...

And then to read manuals