>It is important that the project support the efforts of developers working on such technologies where there is overlap between these technologies and the rest of the project, for example by reviewing patches and participating in discussions in a timely manner.

This part directly addresses the current issue; people were just ignoring those that were working to make non-systemd debian possible and were refusing to even talk about the issue. It will be interesting to see what happens now if those people continue to behave in the same way.

So this actually ends up being a victory for the non-systemd faction, at least in a political sense.