In other words, it’s a god

I used to run the Liquorix kernel with Mint. Should work fine. It’s based on the latest upstream with some extra tuning for desktop specific performance. Usually only a day or two behind upstream latest.

Nobody is packaging a standard init script across all distros, basically. A script is expected to be unique per machine or at least per admin setting up a set of machines. A binary could have a secret exploit installed in it that nobody can see/audit before it’s too late.

At least that’s the theory. Personally I love systemd