Ubuntu controls a big voting block in debian’s organization. They forced systemd in, for example.
Devuan is a good enough compromise for me. The OS is stable, and the only issues I’ve had involve hacking curl|bash scripts that fail to realize they should just install the debian version.
(Steam and docker run well.)
Even without counting Ubuntu, was there a significant number of people against systemd in Debian, with convincing arguments?
Summary of some of them can be read at https://lwn.net/Articles/452865/
Debian’s debate page can be read at https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd
Nothing there supports there were a significant number / more than a minority of people against systemd in Debian outside Ubuntu, which was the extraordinary claim I was (implicitly) complaining against.
I see the convincing arguments against systemd, mostly wrt to the support of the FreeBSD kernel in Debian. I wasn't familiar with them, it's interesting, thanks.