It's time to put on the brakes

> At this point, I'd like to see a fork: at least the anti-systemd crowd would then put in the work to make Gnome and other things work on non-systemd.

I'd rather not see a fork. Splitting an already small community does not seem like a good idea, especially over something that can be fixed by a few packages and a modified installer. But if there is a fork, I wouldn't expect things like Gnome to be a problem, since there are alternatives.