While I avoid systemd as much as possible, I will agree that it "Just Works" for basic operations. Hell, for a workstation distro it's probably the easiest choice as most of the time you don't have to touch anything.

The problems I have are usually server-level, with things like systemd-resolved and those awful binary logs. Though I'm slowly moving my servers and personal apps to OpenBSD or Docker containers, I still use CentOS for a few things. I'll admit that for me it's an ideological thing. Since my professional experience is in the Windows enterprise (kill me), I know the evils of bloated, all-encompassing systems. Systemd's progress of eating all the things (resolve, cron, mounting, etc) is bad for the Linux environment.