I have been a great fan of Debian for the last few years.
1) The commitment to producing a quality system with rock-solid stability.
2) Commitment to the cause of free software.
The result was a reliable system that I was proud to use, knowing I was doing my very small part in contributing to the cause of free software.
Those days are unfortunately past.
By rushing to adopt systemd while it is still in development, the developers abandoned the Debian policy...