>> But there are distro maintainers that can choose between maintaining a systemd free distro or not. The distro maintainers do not represent the market. >> S

>> But there are distro maintainers that can choose between maintaining a systemd free distro or not. The distro maintainers do not represent the market. >> Sysadmins that can decide between deploying a systemd free disto or not They cannot, it is usually corporate policy which system can be deployed. Even if they could, the users of those distros want softwares and features that only exist in systemd enabled ones. >> but a lot of seemingly smart people appear to have independently decided that they prefer supporting systemd to any alternative I am pretty sure you can say the same about NSDAP in 1933. It does not mean they are right, or the thing they chose is good.