>>980599.98%, Debian maintainers developed an allergy to patches. When vanilla systemd was connecting to Google's servers by default, Debian maintainers insisted that's perfectly reasonable and any warnings of Google's surveillance were basically treated like a schizo conspiracy theory.
Linux in general has been slowly overtaken by libtards with affinity for Silicon Valley and defending status quo, you're kinda siding with right-wing populists if you're critical, you know?
It was better when autists with inflated egos were in charge, at least they were against corporations. It's not like now there's more flexibility.