That's the way open source works. The people that think there's a point go and fork and those that don't stay put.
Linux distros have become extremely complicated IMO. Systemd is not the worst example of this - the packaging systems are hard, things like SeLinux are very annoying. The stability is because companies have spent to make it so. There are enterprise features all over the place etc. This just isn't what all of us necessarily want. I think there's room for distros which can be understood at a technical level - which are composed of units that can be easily replaced that have defined functions.
Linux distros have become extremely complicated IMO. Systemd is not the worst example of this - the packaging systems are hard, things like SeLinux are very annoying. The stability is because companies have spent to make it so. There are enterprise features all over the place etc. This just isn't what all of us necessarily want. I think there's room for distros which can be understood at a technical level - which are composed of units that can be easily replaced that have defined functions.