BSD's or musl based distros are there for those who want them. There are choices. Most people don't care enough though, I would switch to a more minimal install base than Arch if it wasn't for 1. steam games 2. the sheer amount of packages already packaged for you.

I agree massively with venam though. Coupling is the main reason of people's complaints, especially around systemd. You can't just simply replace it with another init even if that init serves your needs better. Hell we could extend this further even to the kernel... It's the main reason why I have never bothered to install gnome/kde or another DE environment. The amount of dependencies is unreal. People should have choice, but they shouldn't be locked into once they've made it.