Wow awesome post, you are clearly much more up to date than I am.

Is it true that Bookworm contains non free software in the default release? If so this is sad to hear.

Ive been in the Debian camp for a while now with Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian etc. and I suffer with systemd maybe I made the wrong choice.

Since you seem very knowledgable I have a question. Why do so many, almost all distros use GNOME rather than KDE as their default DE? KDE has been around a long time, they are free and not heavily corporately sponsored and their product is at least equal or perhaps even better than GNOME. I never understood this.

Why was AAA cancelled?

I guess Debian had it right all along. Free and Open Source Software is important.

Its the same issue. While wining about all the profitable 3rd party apps, Reddit killed off all the non-profit open source 3rd party apps without user tracking as well.