To drive this point home, a default nixos system has only five systemd processes running out of the box: PID 1, journald, udevd, oomd, and logind. Collectively, these consume 117K of resident memory (132K virtual) after bootup in my test case. You are not removing bloat by getting rid of these things (not that you realistically could with any of those other than oomd).
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