I don't think that's true at all. I'm ok with systemd, but I don't really like it, and find much of the criticism valid. At this point the reason I use it, and am more-or-less fine with it, is that it has become the de facto standard and is very well supported.
Which is also one of the reasons I dislike it --- it is such an integral part of modern Linux systems that it can be hard to change, which reduces a lot of the appeal of Linux --- flexibility and freedom.