Cool, here's something I can talk about!
At Toradex we provide an operating system and OTA platform called Torizon which is Yocto-based but uses Debian containers with custom packages for hardware acceleration, so our customers have the customisation of Yocto (if they so desire) while getting a very familiar programming environment (Debian). "The best of both worlds", so to say.
Customers are very happy to not deal with the usual Yocto mess.
[1] https://developer.toradex.com/torizon/provided-containers/de...
Disclosure: I'm a software engineer at Toradex.