I don't think the decisions made in Debian were influenced a lot by the average joe user, my complaint is about the discussions, my complaint is that say if I find a thread that compares all the init systems I would prefer to read expert opinions on it, people that had success with systemd but also people that had trouble with systemd , but you get average joe pasting same shit all the time on both sides.

But yeah you are right(this always happens on the internet), I was also guilty of this, I remember back when C# appeared and I was sure is the best thing ever and it will soon replace all the other languages. I think at my past enthusiasm for C# when I see Rust/Go/CoolLang evangelizing why X is better and in 3 years it will dominate.