@kde No, it's not fine.
It's the worst thing to happen to Linux and any Open Source since as long as I have used Linux. 1994. It violates everything that built it to become as excellent as it was, now being piece by piece wrecked by this complete violation of the UNIX Philosophy. This slow infection killing user choice and compatibility just because a few developer elite refuse listening to the users is to be expected from GNOME, it's whar they are, but not you.
Letting it be A choice among many is as it should be but there is no valid reason for any DE to care how its DM was started, nor the DM to depend on any particular init, just as no distro not built for single use single task should be limited to only 1 PID1, only 1 shell, only 1 browser, only 1 App Store, as if it was an authoritarian iPhone. This is just objectively wrong, making it not just drastically more difficult to learn and to troubleshoot but also harmful and active creation of multiple times widely demonstrated single point of failure, abuse-enabling dominance which for certain if you let it advance to effective monopoly status will also let it become a tool for imposing political oppression with the worst possible consequences entirely probable.
It's not fine.

@b9AcE
But...KDE doesn't require systemd at all. In this very thread @kde points out that you can run KDE on non-systemd systems, or even non-Linux systems with no issues (I have a FreeBSD one, it works great). So...I guess I don't see what all the fuss is about? Choose a different distro and install the KDE package.

@wrobertson I was trying to be very clear in describing that it is not the DE I was writing about, just as they were clear. I wrote about both general prinicple and about specifically distros. I even listed examples for that effect.

@b9AcE
You were not clear. You mentioned DE/DM first, then mentioned distros in an appositive phrase. Then you went off about several other arguably unrelated topics. That's why you're getting the responses you're getting. Have a nice Sunday