Right, I really dislike systemd in many ways ... but I love what it enables people to do and accept that for all my grumpyness about it, it is overall a net win in many scenarios.
k8s ... I think is often overkill in a way that simply doesn't apply to systemd.
If you have to manage a large distributed software code base or set of datacenters, Kubernetes is a win in that it provides a consistent, elegant solution to a nearly universal set of problems.
Systemd comparatively feels like a complete waste of time given the heat it has generated for the benefit.
k8s ... I think is often overkill in a way that simply doesn't apply to systemd.