Open source and free software in a privacy data business era should not be a matter of trust a dev, but to trust a technology or a system, i trust big distro repos because alot of trusted people work on it
The Os should give me the package i need without ask and hold (where, for how much time they hold it, any backups of this data or unencrypted trasmission of this data) info about me or my pc
Imho this is not what gnu linux and open philosophy should be, if someone made distro or a pseudo war against systemd i think this is even worse, because i cannot see how my privacy is respected while some data of me go around the web, this is windows not linux, options like this should be opt-in while i install the system