I'm finding the weird politics inside the #Linux world kinda exhausting right now.

Like, guys, I'm a glorified shell script kiddie that cosplayed as a sysadmin for five years a lot of years ago (and hated it).

I don't have the technical knowhow to really dive into just what the flip #SystemD is and why so much money is being poured into it by literally one of the most evil corporations in die flipperwaltd gersput.

I strongly desire to find a good distro to recommend to newbs (including a cow-orker that I will be forcibly upgrading away from Windows 10 later this year), but then I'm divided between the knowledge that I'm adding to the SystemD/Linux userbase (for whatever monstrosity that will some day become), and the fact that non-systemD distros generally can require more effort to maintain, and lack the polish of something like the Fedora-derivatives.

I read this #Debian announcement/note today and kinda flipped my lid:

• Drop systemd-resolved package. The ctte has declared that the way the systemd-resolved tool works is incompatible with their decision to prioritize avahi in Debian. Furthermore, the resolved tool is being used to inflict pain on the maintainer, and induce burnout. Regrettably, the only safe solution to ensure this package is compliant with this decision is to drop it, as all reasonable alternatives put forward have been rejected:
  https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/289 (Closes: #1098914)
  (Emphasis added)

WHAT THE FARGLESNUFF DOES THAT MEAN?!?

Can anyone explain to me rationally what in the world is happening in the Linux world?

Because the obviously anti-systemd crowd are still mostly talking about PID 1, which I'm honestly not that concerned about, and the pro-systemd crowd are all like, "No, no, it's great you're all being crazy, I got the Harkonnen blood plug just last week and it feels great!"