systemd is not something that is intentionally put up to prevent Hurd or FreeBSD from being popular. When I asked about the Hurd of FreeBSD versions of Debian,

systemd is not something that is intentionally put up to prevent Hurd or FreeBSD from being popular. When I asked about the Hurd of FreeBSD versions of Debian, it seems that stuff has to compile against it. Every Debian maintainer has to already spend a lot of time on it, while the usage is pretty low. Furthermore, it seems rarely useful. At most in the 'it compiles, but does not run, ship it anyway!' stage. If people want Hurd or FreeBSD, then why not have them put in a bit more effort? Not like sysvinit will be completely broken.