Hi, I'm the sort of person who uses Debian unstable, reports bugs with reportbug, and sometimes no fixes have come for the issues I've had, so I've kept older versions of some packages / libraries whilst keeping other stuff at the bleeding edge.
I see the chain of dependencies back to systemd as making a Debian system easier to break - e.g. kexec didn't work with systemd, newer versions of udev didn't recognise my mobile handset as a mass storage device, so I removed systemd except for libsystemd0 and have had to go without other packages like k3b, brassero, hplip when there should be workable alternatives (e.g. packages built without sytemd dependencies or alternative dependencies to core parts of systemd).
Where is refracta going in terms of providing such pieces that might eventually find their way into Debian to free applications from dependency on systemd?