The counterpoint is that there's a lot of people and organizations out there that are happy to take advantage of the labor of these large organizations, and view loss of control over some of these things as a valid price to pay for all of the contributions in code that they get. So the people left to contribute to this are a small portion of the overall base, and quite frankly often don't agree on much except their dislike for BigCo decisions. (systemd was able to consolidate its position as the top Linux init system by adoption; the contention for the number-two spot is split between sysvinit holdouts, OpenRC, runit, S6, GNU Shepherd, and probably others I'm forgetting.)
So you end up in a situation where package and distro maintainers face some work to support systemd, and because everybody else is supporting it it lessens the burden. There's this sort of gravity to these big projects that's hard to escape, and frankly a lot of people don't feel the need to; they view it as something they can get in a stable orbit around, not as something they're being sucked into.
So you end up in a situation where package and distro maintainers face some work to support systemd, and because everybody else is supporting it it lessens the burden. There's this sort of gravity to these big projects that's hard to escape, and frankly a lot of people don't feel the need to; they view it as something they can get in a stable orbit around, not as something they're being sucked into.