No, not being included in Debian reflects poorly on the software. It implies there's something "wrong" with it. Perhaps it's too new, or too arcane, or in some other fashion doesn't live up to the operating system's extremely high quality and security standards.
I don't think this would necessarily be true with other Linux based operating systems (perhaps RHEL), but certainly is true in this case.
As you got systemd and non systemd distros, Debian is in this a distro w/o alacrity.