EDIT: I just noticed this thread is pretty old. Sorry for digging it up.
I need to say that I don't know exactly what systemd is doing as I am just getting into Linux and frankly don't know the alternatives, but systemd is doing really good where ever it's mentioned in documentary.
I am also a fan of systemd-boot which is straight forward and easy to maintain my entries unlike GRUB2 where I messed up greatly and it refused to boot my x64 OS in UEFI. Not as beginner friendly as systemd in my opinion.
Necro old SysInit threads as much as you want, just don't necro SysInitV, I'm completely tuned into using systemd now, and I don't want to have to change again lol.
Anyway, I'll just close this thread, UbuntuBSD didn't work out to begin with.