Feeling happy about the move to Debian

The thing that *is* unique about Debian is that whereas most other distributions consider packages and infrastructure shared community endeavors, in debian they are considered sanctimonious personal fiefdoms. Sure, there will be people who focus on specific areas or packages and there will be someone's username listed as a primary contact. But it's not a statement of ownership as much as responsibility. Nobody would get upset if someone else just made some distribution-wide changes to your package, in fact it happens quite regularly. Whereas in debian touching other people's stuff is considered taboo enough that the only way to get anything done is to push the person who maintains the linter to add a lint which might then become an error in 3 years time. This extends across the whole organization, with no way to get a natural, sensible consensus on anything because everything is a power play for who owns what and thus gets to block everything.

It is certainly a fun, attention-grabbing spectacle to watch. Especially compared to other distros where stuff mostly just silently works without major drama (at least of the technical kind). But that doesn't make it effective community governance.