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Since it was just an example, I don't think refuting this particular item will nullify the opinion. The idea, I think, is that there are always more pieces in a state of deprecation and replacement at any given time in Linux land than in FreeBSD land.

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I think that's just due to the pace of development. The BSDs are resource constrained, so they have to pick and choose what to work on. That is both a good thing and a bad thing. Here the benefit is less churn. On the downside, they're just catching the Wayland train recently. On the up side, by catching it late they didn't suffer a lot of the growing pains.

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