at the very bottom of the page it addresses it: > Devuan is about choice. We think people should be able > to choose whether to use a GNU+Linux system with o

at the very bottom of the page it addresses it: > Devuan is about choice. We think people should be able > to choose whether to use a GNU+Linux system with or > without systemd. > Devuan decided to fork not only the base distribution, > but also its governance, because Debian has made it > difficult to avoid systemd as init, entangling the system > with unnecessary dependencies and did so despite... but you're right that it makes sense to put it in a more obvious location, given that it seems to be the reason the project exists.