But equally, thousands of companies now trust systemd to run enterprise servers since centos or RHEL is pretty much the defacto linux distribution in this regard. The fact that this is the case does indicate that it must be pretty stable when correctly configured.
Are you new to this industry, or just pushing an agenda? Deployment numbers certainly do NOT indicate stability - 20 years of Windows' dominance is your counter-evidence there - at best, it's implied.
If there are bugs in systemd, then report them and maybe even help diagnose them to make it better. It has huge traction now so there is zero chance of it disappearing.
I'll pass. I'm of the opinion that systemd is fatally flawed at the design level, probably even at the conceptual level - i.e., it can't be "fixed."
We've already started the process of migrating our infrastructure from Ubuntu Server LTSes back to FreeBSD. The devs behind the former have been making lots of questionable decisions the past few years, so we just needed a back-breaking straw, and the wide adoption only helped us to pick a destination. If Ian's GR had gone through and we wouldn't have had to worry about some random package "upgrading" our Debian installs down the line, we would have gone that way, instead.
I don't care whether it disappears entirely. Once we've finished the move, I don't need to care whether Linus makes the kernel itself require systemd, or if Linux chokes to death on it - my horse will be out of the race.