Hi,

by dropping init-freedom debian has chosen the wrong way.
So, it's good that you departed from debian.

But while distro hopping I happened to find out something which made me wonder:

You are not the first ones developing a 'debian with init-freedom' fork:
gNewSense = debian + init-freedom (SysV) + fully free software

It's initially released 10 years ago and the project is still active.

you = debian + init-freedom (SysV)

What made you building up a 'debian with init-freedom' fork project from the scratch, instead of joining the gNewSense project?