[ultramancool]

One of the things which also bothers me about systemd is that it sort of "hides" things though layers of abstraction, compared to the shell scripts at least. For example, it is not immediately clear to me what effect "Type=forking" will have. It might not be so bad in this example, but it seems like this can wind up being quite complicated in some cases.

FreeBSD has a somewhat better simplification in my opinion using a common rc.subr file, which is included in many init scripts and can easily be reviewed by anyone editing an init script.