Yeah, Debian's decision wasn't brutal and ugly. It was all nice and out in the open, no flame wars!

Debian's TR process doomed them to systemd. I don't think they're capable of making an independent decision. Too many hands were in that cookie jar and the corporatists won, for now.

I'm waiting for the software wars to begin. Software that's so opinionated it'll check if PID1 is systemd and tells you 'fuck off' if so.