the vast majority of Linux users vehemently reject?

I think you vastly over estimate the importance of the reddit/lemmy-sphere freaking out over this.

And the more insane the slippery slopes you imagine skiing down, the less seriously you're taken. The fact that there isn't a serious programmer making a fork and instead y'all promoted a slopfork from someone who didn't read the docs, should be a wakeup call for how unserious y'all are.

If it's the vast majority of Linux users, how come there was not one that's read the systemd docs?

I honestly don't care that much about the law eitherway but the hyperventilating over a milktoast law is something else, it makes me think maybe we should age gate higher.