Honestly, I think systemd is going to be unavoidable. Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, Fedora, ... have all switched, so unless you want to use something like Gentoo you will be forced to switch when 14.04 is end of life, right?
True, but that's a half a decade into the future. Plenty of time for the Linux community to work out all of the bugs, or to move onto the "next best thing".
Honestly, I think systemd is going to be unavoidable. Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, Fedora, ... have all switched, so unless you want to use something like Gentoo you will be forced to switch when 14.04 is end of life, right?
True, but that's a half a decade into the future. Plenty of time for the Linux community to work out all of the bugs, or to move onto the "next best thing".