"Rudderless"?

While people sometimes refer to Debian as a Herd of Cats (generally, when they are failing to persuade the project to do something), one might instead think of us as a Murmuration of Starlings.

Changing direction without taking the flock around you into account is likely to result in crashes and upset, but no change in direction.

On the other hand (or wing-tip?), if you happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and you make a change in direction that the individuals in the flock mostly agree with, the whole thing can turn, and while not as quickly as in a real Murmuration, the new direction of travel is informed by the wisdom of the crowd.

That should be a real selling point to our users (and downstream distros). Debian won't change things just because some person in charge had a good idea while they sat in the bath, potentially trashing a lot of use cases that people hold dear. If you want to make such a change in Debian, you need to carry the bulk of the Developers with you, and the Developers are hopefully a (somewhat) representative selection of our users, so you'll generally find out quite quickly about the use cases that you had not thought about.