To be honest, I (personally) am fine with that. I remember the times before SystemD and it just got so much easier managing the services and dependencies and so on. I genuinely prefer running SystemD on my servers and computers at home. And I don’t have a strong opinion on my display server, I just use whatever works. But all of that is just my perspective.
The only thing Linux force feeds you is Wayland and SystemD. But there’s disros without them.
To be honest, I (personally) am fine with that. I remember the times before SystemD and it just got so much easier managing the services and dependencies and so on. I genuinely prefer running SystemD on my servers and computers at home. And I don’t have a strong opinion on my display server, I just use whatever works. But all of that is just my perspective.