Good intentions without action bears no fruit.  He who seeks, finds.  You are most welcome to offer solutions to posts on this forum or perhaps fix a bug.  Only you know your skillset and abilities and can choose to offer them to the community. 

Yes, there is a "we" at Devuan.  That is what's makes this distro unique and powerful.

I have not touched your email or forum accounts. Neither have I suggested or encouraged action to be taken by anyone else.

Just a hunch but it might be useful for you to understand how Devuan merges Debian repos with amprolla.

@Jakoline . . .

There is a difference between what is said and what is interpreted through our mental filters.  All humans suffer from these mental distortions and sadly build  entire identities from the fictitious rationalizations and justifications generated from them.

You are only the victim of your own internal distortions and only you can heal them. Not to worry.  You have plenty of company.

Devuan is on the track that it is on. Perhaps if you had stayed around and contributed, it would now be something more suited to your needs.

It seems that you have in effect, with your dramatic departure, self-banned. As everything in life, the choice is yours so best to choose wisely.

And finally a reminder . . . less is always more.

Please stop stuffing this forum with nonsense or we will do it for you.

edit: Filing a Debian bug with Devuan will not get the "bug" you perceive fixed.  File it directly with Debian.

Many have left the debian-based ecosystem entirely.  I'm hoping it can hang together in a usable state till the end of my years on this imploding rock hurtling through space and time . . .

@Jakoline . . .

FDN = Forums.Debian.Net

Feel free to move on . . .

PLEASE keep this thread focused on the possibility of running wicd in Chimaera.  Does it  work for you?  What issues if any?  Is it secure? Report your experiences here.

Debian testing is now "Bookworm" which will be the base for Devuan 5 "Daedalus".

Devuan 4 "Chimaera" is based on Debian "Bullseye" which is now stable.

Note that if you use "testing" in your sources.list, you will find yourself upgraded to "Bookworm"/"Daedalus" which is basically Ceres at this point.

Welcome to the forum.
Your question is answered in this sticky post:
Why are systemd files present in Devuan?

Seems you know exactly what the problem is so feel free to write a patch(s) that season the soup exactly as you like and submit it upstream.  I think this thread has run its course.  Continuing to argue your points here is a fruitless endeavor.

That would depend on the definition of "reasonable person".  Installing multiple desktops with a distribution that strives for simplicity and doing one thing and doing it well seems like a user/distro mismatch to me.