GNOME wasn't pressured in depending on it. There deciding to depend on logind over ConsoleKit. Initially logind could be used without systemd, that changed after a systemd version due to cgroups v2. There's quite a bit of overlap between the people maintaining ConsoleKit and the people wanting to make use of logind, so there was a push by some GNOME maintainers to use logind.
The arguments against were often quite weak. When pointed out that ConsoleKit was unmaintained for years the answer could often be summarized as "why does it need development".
> It's a betrayal of everything those projects stand for.
Stuff like this makes maintainers of things just ignore you. There might be a valid point in your argumentation, but why bother.
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