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Well....
I just installed Pop_OS which uses systemd-boot to boot instead of grub. I gotta say...its one of the areas I really like systemd over the legacy grub bootloader.
Most systems still have legacy backports too of things like init. So you can still use old commands to do basics like restart services etc.
systemd-boot is so much easier to work with than grub.
Definately agree. For a very long time I have been one of those "what problems is systemd solving over init/upstart"
This is 1000% one of them. In my setup my EFI paritions are totally separate. So theres no risk as well as Pop_OS bungling my windows boot loader and vice versa. I was very happy with this change.