I'd like to see a long term focus on removing the entanglement with other
invasive dependencies, particularly those which are likely to be folded
into systemd in the future, and on staying true to the Unix philosophy.

DBUS and PulseAudio are freedesktop backed technologies which are likely to
be folded entirely into systemd in the future.

Further down the line, make it possible to do a guided install directly
from an existing Linux environment - similar in function to debtakeover but
perhaps with a bit more handholding.

In the much longer term, I'd like to see a more sensible approach to
getting current software, with a LTS approach to essential "core" packages,
and an aggressive release schedule for everything else - so that the core
system would be on a yearly release cycle with 3 years of support, but
rapidly changing things like browsers might see a monthly release cycle
with only 3 months of support.