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> politics or something of that sort

I suppose you could classify "the patch doesn't work and breaks other things besides" that way.

HardenedBSD got the userland running fine. It was iirc mostly irrational fear by the FreeBSD team that someone's bad application would break.

That’s not what happened.

Nope. The code had major problems that were highlighted during code review, and Shawn never fixed them.