There was a heavy influence from the GNOME camp, both upstream and within Debian, by mandating the use of systemd with GNOME. At the time, I wasn't particularl

There was a heavy influence from the GNOME camp, both upstream and within Debian, by mandating the use of systemd with GNOME. At the time, I wasn't particularly happy at the disproportionate influence for a specific desktop use case at the expense of other use cases e.g. embedded, server and others.