with the exception of fedora which has only a few backers i will NOT be distributing a filesystem which contains the completely unethically-developed and very dangerous systemd application.
I mentioned systemd simply as a data point indicating that its considered normal nowadays to log to ram.
cares. Worst-case scenario, you make a decision that turns out to be a maintenance burden for you and annoys some of your backers. Regardless
FWIW, I recently "solved" some odd permission problems I was having with network-manager as well as a few other minor oddities on a Debian testing system by installing systemd on it (I hadn't worked hard to avoid it, but that 10 year old installation of Debian testing somehow had managed to go through incremental upgrades without install systemd).
So, yes, I wouldn't be surprised that Debian-without-systemd suffers from latent bugs.
Stefan