It's called the bandwagon fallacy, and is based on the wrong-headed notion that popularity and correctness are synonymous (when in fact they are not even vaguely correlated).
So... (amongst others)...
Plato was wrong.
Aristotle was wrong.
Pythagoras was wrong.
Ptolemy was wrong.
The bible is wrong.
Over 1,000 years of conventional wisdom was wrong.
Well... yeah. As a matter of fact, turns out that
they were all wrong. (Bummer, huh?)
If Devuan can do more than one thing that Debian doesn't do, do you want to tell us about that?
Wait... I can fix that for you...
If
systemd can do more than one thing that
existing userspace doesn't do, do you want to tell us about that? (Hint: whatever you name has to be worth at least $1,000,000,000 in deployment costs.)
P.S. In point of fact, for 60% of Debian developers who voted in the GR, the nicest thing they could find to say about systemd and gratuitous init coupling is that it "should be avoided." (Their words, not mine.) See
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 30#p576502 for math.