it'd be a shame for people to go back to other operating systems purely because "it broke one day, something about systemd".

FWIW, exactly this happened to me on an upgrade one day on another Linux distribution, after a few other headaches. The switch to systemd broke smbd/nmbd, at the time there were not yet tools for spitting the new binary log format into text, and trying to data mine that logging system to figure out what the hell broke was a real adventure.

I was so skeeved I immediately dumped that and fled to Debian, because it had a reputation for stability.

Imagine how excited I was when Debian voted to adopt systemd.

I, also, have started looking at the BSDs again recently. herbstluftwm looks pretty nifty.