It's good that Devuan is going to remove age verification cause they were saying in IRC if debian upstreams it they have no choice

However
Devuan has the advantage of being a fork so they can go in and remove stuff

It's like Artix Linux it's a fork that's completely under the control of the devs who forked it rather than being a slave to upstream commits on the main project

Also important to note that during install Devuan lets you choose sysvinit openRC or runit

YOU HAVE OPTIONS