Idk. about the Linux idea and the freedom being at risk.

imagine this, you're a windows user ready to make the jump, you're looking at different distros and they're all have a systemd init system.

you finally choose a distro and make the jump, you use ur os for a few months and you feel ready to explore the vast universe of different distros with different flavors, you had a great experience after all.

and then you switch to something like void Linux, technically able people will have no problem switching to this but someone who is used to the convince of systemd just because "it works" might just go back to what they're comfortable with, this doesn't encourage exploration and freedom of choice because systemd does everything for you and the apps you love and use might not be compatible with something other than systemd unless you heavily tweak things.

You’ve chosen another init system, they’ve chosen theirs -hopefully- for technical reasons.

Totally agree with you on this, not saying people shouldn't choose their init system, they're free to do so.