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Not sure a great move here.

HardenedBSD have some additional security mechanisms that vanilla FreeBSD does not have:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/introduction-to-ha...

One of very important reasons why FreeBSD haven't incorporated the patches from HardenedBSD was that their code quality was disputed and historically the author had issues with undergoing reviews and applying requested changes. HardenedBSD may do a very good job for the PR about their "superior security" but one may wonder if a system without badly implemented feature isn't more secure than the one with it.

> the author had issues with undergoing reviews and applying requested changes.

Does this mean the author would send code for review and never actually action the change requests? Or was it more they sent patches and expectecd them to just be merged?

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