First, I don't like people promoting systemd. I don't need it more than other init systems. It's about picking the right group.
Second, I want a simple distribution so I use Void, which famously uses runit. It's about being lazy.
Third, I don't like the idea of it sprouting dependencies which it shouldn't. It's about paranoia. See recent news with a backdoor which wouldn't work if not for this.
I was trying different distros to replace my Zorin, I tried NixOS (didn't like the setup), GoboLinux (really like the idea, but it's very buggy). I ended up using EndevoursOS (arch btw) and I really love pacman/AUR, but I'm still not married to it
I actually don't remember why I lost my patience and just tried Void then (4 years ago). Maybe had something to do with installing a Linux on a laptop after using only FreeBSD for some time, and sound setup and brightness control being confusing (actually everything in Linux is more clumsy and messy, so wanted a simple distribution).
Debian I like, but it has a bit older versions of packages, as everyone knows, and also kernel versions, thus hardware support.
Fedora - I don't like the culture.
OpenSUSE - I like it, but didn't bother back then and now why change anything.
Arch - I don't like the idea of regularly solving problems which can be avoided by maintainers. AUR is attractive. The culture of clueless people proud of the fact that they installed Arch is a bit irritating.
Gentoo and Funtoo - I like them, but time spent on compilation could be used better.
Slackware - my favorite distribution, but it's a bit manual, so even more chores than with Arch. I think I might try it again.
And also Void has something just a bit similar to FreeBSD ports. I'd prefer it to be a real ports collection like in CRUX (which I might try some day), and I use pkgsrc anyway for such things now.
One thing that is really annoying me in AUR is how frequently thing break. Just the other day I had to tweak my settings because Hyprland pushed a breaking change.
If so that was fun, I updated my hyprland / hy3 flakes and I was bombarded by flashing red notifications indicating I'd caused Satan to return. Trawling through all my hyprland Configs I eventually put an end to the chaos.
If not, I guess I'll find out next time I update my flakes lol.