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How to use conditional variables in .service files?

How can I change the value of some settings such as Restart= to always or on-failure or something conditionally using some variable or anything else? I’ve already seen Environment= and EnvironmentFile= but those only change the environment of the executed process as far as I can tell.

How to allow my systemd daemon to write files?

I have a program which when run from the terminal as either the user or as root, can access and write files to the filesystem. However when I run it as a systemd managed service or daemon it cannot. The daemon process is running as root.