This is the same logic behind OpenBSD. You don't need to run OpenBSD to benefit from the security posture and fixes that they provide. Consider your life without ssh.
Probably a good reason to consider contributing to these projects.
It's fine that it exists for those who want it, I'd rather systemd and all my GUI apps and DEs stay as they are.
Android could use a bit more modularity though, but the SAF makes that a challenge at times.
That's actually an interesting example. ssh was made to fix a real problem (password sniffing). What problem is being fixed here?
Some of us don't want EVERY available byte of RAM or clock cycle occupied by bloated window managers, terminals, browsers, init systems, text editors, etc.
Suckless has a lot in common with the Handmade Network's philosophy. Keep it small, keep it simple, stop throwing a billion layers of abstraction on top of each other, give a shit about cache lines, heap fragmentation, pipeline flushes, etc.
We are mired in the Jevon's Paradox of the computing world right now. The faster hardware becomes, the more obese our software becomes to utilize it. And as a consequences, much worse.
Suckless aims to address this.
IPsec and Telnet. Might not have been so bad, if IPsec wasn't such a chore; particularly compared to the ease of getting an sshd up off the ground.