Good - but I wish that change would have been coordinated with Devuan instead of duplicating the effort.
And by the way - if you're doing something Debian-based - make it Devuan-based, it's pretty straightforward. http://www.devuan.org/
And by the way - if you're doing something Debian-based - make it Devuan-based, it's pretty straightforward. http://www.devuan.org/
It's also pretty straightforward to switch Debian systems back to sysvinit.
You still need libsystemd0 which is a compatibility library. It's actually unfortunately named, as it isn't part of systemd itself.
I've been using sysvinit on my Debian workstations since systemd became the default. It takes me about 5 minutes to switch a new system over (admittedly I don't use Gnome or KDE). The stackexchange thread you linked is out of date and switching is getting easier. I recommend following the debian-init-diversity mailing list for further info.