I'm quite happy with systemd on server side, it eases a lot of things there as well. And I haven't noticed homed on my servers. Did they shove homed down your throat on your servers?
Wait until you want to disable some of the built-in behaviors in Ubuntu. To make things really suck for you, they run some tasks both in crontabs AND in systemd timers. So good luck pulling hair out when you have removed apt updates from all crontabs () around but they still do.
() yeah, it's a bad idea; it was required for a specific installation where every cpu cycle counted.
