Irrelevant. Ubuntu, which the other people here are discussing, used upstart before it switched to systemd. For about a decade.

You've just made one of the errors discussed in http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ .

I'm not interested in your appeal to authority, especially as it claims comparing systemd with init is pointless (why?) and contains massive flaws like "Proponents (of systemd) are usually part of the modern Desktop Linux bandwagon"