I have that habit too sir!

Wanted to leave this comment yesterday but a bit earlier in the discussion was a remark about service supervision and crashy programs - that is correct i might say, but modern init also brings dependency tree and readiness fd (and few more such not shell friendly ipc things). They were brought by upstart which was quite dubious like systemd but for different reason cause it was designed with desktop in mind, but predates it by a lot, even predates openrc by a year or two.
I would guess they are somewhat useful. Just like how user services are useful in this privilege separated desktop thing that became the norm, don't know when.
Lightweight stuff like puppy replaces sysvinit with busybox but the shell scripts are very similar.

On boot times - maybe systemd was faster when it was new and much slimmer, but as for now i have this modified dinit setup which boots in 1 second (4 seconds with vmlinuz) to the desktop, with nothing too special machine wise.

I personally like seeing things go forward the dinit way and less the daemontools way (for instance s6 compiles it's db, kind of gross). Openrc is a good middle ground here and it looks pretty.