This is just yet another quite literal example of how many GNU/Linux distros are becoming more like Windows - they do all sorts of things now that they were never asked to do, and it's up to us to fix things after a clean install.
> many GNU/Linux distros are becoming more like Windows
And others aren't. Though I disagreed with the SystemD move, I've quite enjoyed arch for years. There are also some excellent other options, for instance, Alpine is a Musl/Busybox/Linux distro that works great on old machines. I think most Linux users will move to a different Linux before moving to BSD for comfort reasons.
This is just yet another quite literal example of how many GNU/Linux distros are becoming more like Windows - they do all sorts of things now that they were never asked to do, and it's up to us to fix things after a clean install.