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>enabling and starting systemd services for everything you install by default
This used to really annoy me. There's actually a bunch of stuff Debian does that annoys me. But overall it seems that other distros annoy me more, so I put up with Debian's quirks. It is what it is.

>patches to diverge them from upstream
You'd be surprised how much worse Fedora is on this. Arch is pretty hands off, which is nice.