This is an AB problem in which you're going to eventually solve the actual problem that isn't actually systemd after looking real hard at ways to replace systemd.
Or else you're going to find yourself in an increasingly painful maintenance process trying to retrofit rc scripts into constantly evolving distributions.
There's a lot I prefer about the old SysV, and I'm still not thrilled that everything is being more dependent on these large monolithic daemons. But I've yet to find a systemd problem that wasn't just me not knowing how to use systemd.