Just a reminder that there are plenty of systemd-less distros available. Also a reminder that those distros would have been safe from the nearly-solar-winds-level backdooring of Linux distros from XZ utils.
Also remember that systemd-using distros like, say, Arch were also safe from the nearly-solar-winds-level backdooring because the backdoor targeted specific distros widely used as servers. Obviously the solution to security from backdoors is only using distros that aren't popular for servers