I dunno about that, the majority of ops guys I work with (or have worked with over the last few years) dislike it... we’re mostly angry old greybeards though.
I admin a number of ubuntu servers running systemd, and they all shut down/reboot pretty much instantaneously.
Being able to specify date ranges instead of grepping around multiple files. `journalctl -u <unit> -s <start> -e <end>` instead of horrid combinations of grep and gzcat.
"Okay," you say, "but that's all for logs on the host. Shouldn't you be using Splunk or an ELK stack?"
Journalctl can export logs in a json format that can be natively consumed by splunk for free metadata markup. I wrote some container sidecars to do exactly that, and it worked great.
The only thing I don't like about journalctl is that it doesn't line wrap by default.