I did.

I like it.

It feels very clean and well engineered, I always manage to break it via updates though (freebsd-upgrade vs ports vs pkg)

Apparently pkg-ng and ports are linked via a central database though now, so that should not be the case any longer.

As for why? I disliked systemd and was told to "evolve or gtfo" so I gtfo since I didn't like the way it was being forced on me and the few gripes I had with it fell onto people who seemed to be acting very defensively. But I digress.

I'm a systems administrator, in my next employment I will be attempting to get into a company that is making use of freebsd ( hopefully by then I'll be breaking it much less often of course :) )