The "systemd question" has roiled Debian
multiple times over the years, but things had mostly been quiet on that
front of late.  The Devuan distribution
is a Debian derivative that has removed systemd; many of the vocal
anti-systemd Debian developers have switched, which helps reduce the
friction on the Debian mailing lists.  But that seems to have led to
support for init system alternatives (and System V init in particular) to
bitrot in Debian.  There are signs that a bit of reconciliation between
Debian and
Devuan will help fix that problem.