Systemd: service command not found

What can you do when the system answers to your commands with something like That happened to me today.
At glance, I thought there was some hidden problem with the PATH and sudo(1), but a quick search on the web shown me that, for some strange reasons, Fedora has a specific package named initscripts that includes service, so the command what effectively not installed on the system.

The solution was therefore as simple as: but why is a such important component not available on the base install?
I know that it is possible to interact with systemctl in a straight manner, so for instance the following are equivalent: but having to manage a lot of different system, I tend to rely on service be there and do the right thing depending on the service manager the operating system is using.