I can confirm this, used it for many years, 3 keywords: efficient, reliable, useful.

all 3 missing on journald,in my experience i saw it inefficient also on configuration level, unreliable because of loosing loglines on crash or reboot and not useful since to look at logs i need 3 commands, verbose parameters and 5 google search to find them.

syslog experience? very efficient also on heavy load production instances, never lost a log, pipe grep and jq and you have the info you need.

so what I experienced is that a default linux install was shipping a rock solid logging system by default, reliable and usable and everybody knew what was where and you will find it. now i just have fancy stuff, units etc and lost all of that.

no I dont need to tune config parameters on a default install to have working basic logging tnx.