I’ve tried a half dozen systemd distros. Each one hit some insane bug at some point that took a day to debug. Every single time, it was some undocumented systemd thing that has no reason for existing.
Anyway, it’s all devuan and openbsd at home these days. I’ve had zero non-hardware related issues in over a year.
Actually, that’s not true. Devuan still defaults to pulseaudio (the moral precursor to systemd), which still doesn’t support locking your audio output port in a way that survives reboot. It also crashes randomly when audio ports come and go. The upside is it randomly requires a reboot or moves audio out to an unconnected jack.
I replaced it with pipewire, bringing the number of Poettering services on my machines to zero. Now things work reasonably.