I'm a long term Debian user, and while I'm not sure I'm super happy with this, which distro are you using that is is more transparent than Debian wrt their decision making process?

It goes without saying that all the commercial distros are disqualified. Anything with a (B)DFL is obviously disqualified. Anything run by a small cabal that could easily communicate in an out of band way is disqualified. What do you have left?