There’s a reason why Devuan (a non systemd Debian) exists. Don’t want to get into a massive argument, but there are legitimate reasons for some to go in a different direction.
And "because I want to" is a legitimate reason, if it's my system. It's not up for discussion.
And Void Linux. And Gentoo. And Alpine Linux. And Slackware. And others.
And "because I want to" is a legitimate reason, if it's my system. It's not up for discussion.