@ariadne @chimera_linux @Gottox That's probably the case but what happened from outside is systemd being shoved because software essentially from Fedora/RedHat (such as gnome projet and related aka the main/reference desktop environment and toolkit) depended on it hard enough to need custom patches that wouldn't be merged upstream.

It definitely wasn't grassroot as in major distros reaching a consensus, and I don't think most can do that much distinction between redhat and fedora without being implied in one or the other.
(Corporate conspiracy being speculation from there, and of course bullshit but that's politics for you)