Like most, you could have simply moved to a distribution without systemd. Unlike Linux, the BSDs offer less choice when it comes to both init, service supervision and service management options. It is also evidenced in the comparison table in the OP. If anything the debacle resulted in creating more awareness and leaving people open to more choice.
That said, adopting one monolith instead of another sounds more like a knee jerk reaction than anything else.
> The proof in the pudding for me is to look at the running processes of a default system between BSD and Linux with systemd. Yikes.
This only scratches the surface. Daemons running under systemd have their PIDs supervised instead of using unreliable hacks like pidfiles. This is one of the reasons why systemd is preferred in large deployments and professional environments.