[psacawa]

A relevant bit of self-promotion maybe:

I created a small language server for systemd unit files which may help those having to integrate services with it.

https://github.com/psacawa/systemd-language-server

[1oooqooq]

the service syntax is the least of your concerns.

the windows service manager like UI of systemctl exploratory mode is one thing to tackle.

the lack of visibility on dependencies that are not obviously direct. or even relevant (like ssh depending on key generation at first boot, which depends on time, which depends on time sync, which depends on network target... which causes ssh to not get started, without any logs, if you don't have network... despite it not being the first boot... :mindblown)

i won't bother with whole list because 1. there's no alternative 2. "I'm just another systemd denier" like i wouldn't have to be using it from early on to accumulate so much grievances

[jamespo]

Why do you want ssh if you don't have network :)

[alexeldeib]

have you seen systemd-analyze?