A systemd free Debian.  Yup. 
A Debian not taking that path of Lennartware.
But how much of the rest of Debian comes along?  Where (as one diasporan pointed as their reason to still prefer Debian) is the social contract?  ... Which I think just goes to satirically highlight how undermined that social contract is, given the direction taken and need of remedy by a fork.  Gave me more confidence in Devuan. 

As for what else others see in it, and consider it should be... to me it seems much simpler when not trying to grasp tight on some narrow definition of purpose of existence, and instead allow it to be many things to many people.  Just like Debian is/was.

Lets not get caught up in what it is to me, as what it should be to everybody else.