I like the best of both worlds.  At the moment I'm dual booting Slackware64-15.0 with OpenBSD 7.3 on my secondary PC.  OpenBSD plays nice with LILO.  My main PC is running Devuan 4.0.  I also like playing with FreeBSD and Void in VMs.
I generally like operating systems not polluted with systemd.  My choice to avoid systemd is not ideologically based, I take a pragmatic approach with OSs.  For me systemd hangs occasionally and it behaves in unexpected ways.  That  init system is unreliable.
I prefer sysvinit and runit.