Systemd has recently added experimental support for musl libc, which should eventually allow Alpine to upgrade though

After over a decade of Debian, when I upgraded my PC, I tried every big systemd-based distro, including opensuse, which I wholly loathed. I finally decided on Void and feel at home as I did 20+ years ago when I began.

There are serious problems with the systemd paradigm, most of which I couldn't argue for or against. But at least in Void, I can remove network-manger altogether, use cron as I always have, and generally remain free to do as I please until eventually every package there is has systemd dependencies which seems frightfully plausible at this pace.

Void is as good as I could have wanted. If that ever goes, I guess it's either BSD or a cave somewhere.

I'm glad to see the terse questions here. They're well warranted.