Very well stated, Miles.

If this is a fork to remove systemd from our computers, what is the benefit
to speak of supporting that from which we aim to distance ourselves.

Why would someone say, "I want systemd", then ask that the group who does
not want systemd should then say yes, we will support systemd? And dilute
our time, effort and money because someone might say that we are not being
free enough.

Seems that they need to find a group whose aim is to support systemd?