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Sure! Look at any StackOverflow post where 'how do I run X as a service on Linux' is now 'make a .service file' rather than a combination of bash, pm2, forever, etc.

Compare the upvotes on the .service answers to the alternatives.

Also earlier today I wanted to find out about systemd timers and the first post was this, which thinks they're way better to debug than cron: https://mjanja.ch/2015/06/replacing-cron-jobs-with-systemd-t... - mainly because they have an options to 'run this job right now, in exactly the same environment' - that's an excellent feature, and something cron should have had ages ago.

Getting an impression of systemd from HN is like getting an impression of politics from Twitter. You'll be exposed to a lot of views, but not a wide variety of them.