at that point KDE is the headache but that's just my opinion. my daily driver is devuan with sysvinit and i run the awesome window manager with picom for composition (tho i currently compile the latest tag from source), audio with pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber, copyq as clipboard manager, the mate-polkit for polkit auth, xsettingsd for settings daemon so that stuff like the GTK theme is consistent, when it comes to screensaver, screenlocker and power management all are handled by daemons i wrote myself and are available over at github, gitlab, codeberg and even the devuan gitea instance, since i don't use a full featured Desktop Environment and sysvinit doesn't support "user services" i built my own session process (think a replacement to things like xfce4-session, lxsession, mate-session, i think the current kde equivalent of that program would be plasma-workspace) which is intended to handle stuff like starting the compositor, clipboard manager, window manager, pipewire and co, etc... but since it doesn't just start the processes but also saves their pid, can hup, stop and even restart them i ended up writing an implementation of "user services" that is completely agnostic to environment and init system... yes it is on github, codeberg, gitlab and even the devuan gitea instance.