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> I feel like the BSDs lack the manpower or interest to even keep pace with the world around them

That's rich considering that one design goal of OpenBSD is to stay the same no matter what happens around it.

What I really like about *BSD is that things mostly stay the same, although there are examples of the contrary (ZFS adoption, DTrace in FreeBSD, pledge in OpenBSD). Both systems are stable, reliable and just get out of your way.

I totally respect that, but that's not how you stay relevant for anyone but old-school Unix hackers.

I'd say being actively used to run the largest streaming service on the planet makes you pretty relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o-HcG8QxPc

Possibly unpopular opinion but serving a lot of data via Ethernet is much simpler than creating a low latency modern hardware accelerated desktop with VR support and playing audio through my latest Bluetooth headset.

That’s another use case which works way better under somewhat modified FreeBSD (PlayStation) than under Linux.

simpler on paper sure. definitely not easy of course

I thought that was the point of things like OpenBSD.

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