[zerogara]

how can you tell what people care about?

The vast majority of unix/linux "media" are sponsored by a handful of industries that all "sell" systemd based distros. Who makes a living writing for a linux media outfit who will turn against the interests of those who pay his salary?

How do you know there is a choice for people if you don't know the amount of bias there is in media what to project as "mainstream" and "popular". When Distrowatch a little while ago, run a poll, about init systems, systemd DID NOT come 1st, and its 3-4 top adversaries got 60% of the votes. Based on this I'd say systemd is a little second class adversary that can only get newbs fooled to use it because that is what mass media tells them they should try.

Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora. This is what media is pushing down peoples' throats.