I was initially against systemd (around the time Debian started discussing using it) for non-technical reasons: the project seemed to have some very negative aspects in terms of how feedback and concerns are addressed. I don't know for sure but I strongly suspect this was the core issue a good chunk of those "against" were concerned about: the way the project is run.

Having used it for several major releases of Debian technically I'm happy to have it - it's an improvement over the sysv init & crontabs. I'm not completely in love with journal compared to regular logs but I can see some advantages.