I am a sysadmin and have been for around 15 years and I think that systemd is awesome so now you have some praise from your peers 8-)
I find systemd to be thorough well thought out, and am excited after doing some troubleshooting that required interaction with systemctl, loginctl and journalctl by how simple it makes things. In a way it reminds me of OpenBSD, which I also find to be well organized. The problems it solves are not fundamentally difficult, starting processes in a controlled environment, and clears away a lot of confusion by just, doing, that.