1. You can enable SELinux on debian if you want to.
2. I've never had a conversation with anyone who is enthusiastic about SELinux.
3. I've never run into someone who was good at explaining SELinux policies, how to create them, update them, or explain their decision process other than "well... the app seems to need to do x, so we should let it."
4. I have run into plenty of people that disable SELinux out of the gate to avoid the headache of it.
5. I have run into plenty of people that avoid Redhat distros.
This is akin to someone writing an article about how Oracle and Microsoft got databases wrong because they didn't embrace some security feature that only DB2 has and that more than half of DB2 users out there think is a giant pain in the neck.
This is akin to someone writing an article about how Oracle and Microsoft got databases wrong because they didn't embrace some security feature that only DB2 has and that more than half of DB2 users out there think is a giant pain in the neck.