This smells bad, really bad, I dare say, like a putrifying animal. Is
the difficulty to keep up with startup scripts so great that Devuan
will have to bow its head to using a single supported init? This
reminds me of systemd. The excuse was, that Debian did not have enough
man-power to keep using sysvinit as its init, as more upstream
developers were using features from systemd.

Sorry for being the Devil's Advocate.