I'd much rather have a bash script to look at-- and manually step through.
Is that a joke? Bash is an almighty impenetrable nightmare. I've been doing *nix for nearly 10 years and *still* am unable to read anything vaguely complicated in bash whereas I can write fairly decent python after 6 months. From my point of view SystemD is amazing I can write a 6 line service file for my apps and it *just works* and I don't have to think about it anymore.
What is it about SystemD that brings out the Richard Stallman in everyone?