Re: align itself with Debian ...
... or maybe Devuan. I'm still not happy about systemd.
Indeed. I would even dare to say that a major part of the time needed for a fresh install is needed for just one thing: reviewing (love that abundant documentation, don't you?) and systemctl disable
a large part of that haystack. But honesty does also force to admit it's not as bad as it used to be (after distilling the final bash script to automate).