It's so weird to see administrators watching the second or third person (outside of ProwlerGR with the Devuan/Antix InitDiversity spins, which are incredible work) try to loosen systemD's stranglehold via Dinit and say, "Nothing complicated."

No, system inits and service files aren't generally complicated. But Devuan has stuck with SysV and OpenRC for as long as y'all have because the legwork was also being done on other distros, so you could share the workload. Antix doesn't move to Runit without Void, etc. etc.

Working from Chimaera to Devuan is a genuinely interesting path. Why you feel the need to belittle it is probably why Devuan is the community that it is.