After looking into it a bit more it's not specifically systemd I have an issue with but that Arch does things that really are at odds with how my brain works, haha.
Back to debian.
@renbymon Mint here, which I guess is fancy Ubuntu, which in turn is fancy Debian. I've looked at Arch a couple of times and every time I do, it makes me retreat back to Mint.
Though I'll admit to borrowing some packages from AUR on occasion.
@renbymon Debian here too. I think we all had our "let's try arch" phase