@ariadne greater inclusion of actual systemd bits, the X compositor under Wayland in lieu of XLibre. The /usr thing doesn't bother me as long as the transition is painless. The last two or so releases appear to not have been as rigorously tested as previous one but that is subjective. All not helped by some of the wider politics and corporate 'involvement' in the Linux world.

#AlpineLinux is a wonderful OS and reliable with a good mix of software available. However, feel the team is struggling to expand and adapt as is becomes and more popular OS (Postmarket adding to the workload but contributing some too). Lots of people clearly doing good work. A loss of pure X and systemd components being added has triggered questions about whether #AlpineLinux is the right choice for the future. My contributions to the project are small and am not asking the project to change direction as that is wrong, just sharing an opinion for a user of it on multiple archs, using it as a server and desktop on fixed and portable devices. The wider issues in the 'Linux' community are more troubling and likely triggered the itch.

So, search is on for a new OS which feel could well be a BSD or Unix.

Hope that helps explain. Feel free to PM me if not or ask specifics here.