Reread this part of your quote- "in the long term, we could switch... in case we agree that's a reasonable decision at that time" This is a blog post by a Debi

Reread this part of your quote- "in the long term, we could switch... in case we agree that's a reasonable decision at that time" This is a blog post by a Debian developer that would like the project to switch the default init system. It includes some discussion of how Debian could make the transition. It's nothing the project has committed to, so saying "that in the near future nearly all debian users will be using systemd" is unwarranted.