On the sickness of our community

> If there are really so many people who don't like systemd (to avoid more loaded terms), then how is it that all the major Linux distributions have managed to adopt systemd without there being either a massive exodus to distributions like Slackware or else an obvious and popular initiative to produce systemd-free forks of Fedora, openSUSE, or Debian?

Where's your facts and figures to support that assertion? I see new recruits on the Gentoo forums every week who straight up cite systemd as their reason for switching. comp.sysutils.supervision.general is quite alive as of late too.