I love systemd timers! I've slowly moved all of my ansible-deployed cron jobs to timers (now just an ansible copy!). The integration with journalctl, especially in a newer OS like Debian 13 where syslog is gone, is really nice. It's also really nice to be able to start the service manually for debug. Having a cron job that didn't work was an annoying exercise in copy/pasting or writing an extra shell script. Don't even get me started on the black hole of cron job stdout. I can monitor systemd services like I already do and get a notification on failure.

I've noticed more and more open source projects recommending timers as a deployment method and I think that's great!

> more and more open source projects recommending timers

I am perfectly happy with projects recommending timers as long as I can ignore them and use cron.