Comment by cb321
Not to be too presumptuous, but you sound like someone would might like Gentoo. It still works without systemd, though it does install sys-apps/systemd-utils (mostly for the /dev FS stuff). I'd say the focus of Gentoo is on "managing choice", and it is true that some choices can make your system(s) diverge from the most frequent instances floating around (but those tend to be systemd-based these days). It's still pretty decent, though. I've been incrementally upgrading the same basic install since Jan, 2007. Of course, you may already know all about it and have other opinions.
Safe presumtion. I never used it for real but for instance I like freebsd and the ports system, prefer macports to brew etc.