Comment by fapjacks

Yes. My spidey sense has been tingling about a Debian fork, given the facts mentioned on the link, consistent problems with at least one of Lennart Poettering's previous projects (pulseaudio), and the strong likelihood that politics played a bigger part in the "adoption" of systemd versus technical merit. If the answer from systemd people is that we have no choice but to use systemd, then I hope that a fork happens, and I will contribute a lot to that project, despite the trite downvotes these affirmative comments get.