“liberated” sounds like SystemD is a jail for your system. If that is such of a high value to you not to use SystemD, maybe its time for you to change the distribution maybe? There are dedicated distributions with the alternatives to SystemD in mind, tested carefully and operating optimally. Devuan, AniX and MX Linux are based on Debian. Have a look at https://itsfoss.com/systemd-free-distros/ .