[martinflack]

> Debian found itself in a position where the amount of work to sustain a non-systemd path in a systemd-dominated ecosystem would be too much work _for them_

Just as a side note for the interested, there is a project named Devuan that launched to keep alive a Debian sans systemd.

https://devuan.org/

(I've never run it myself; I just happen to know it exists.)