I'm happily on my 2nd OPNsense business license on Deciso embedded Ryzen-based hardware with 10 GigE optical links. Even takes care of PKI and has 2FA. I'm happy and I don't have to worry about massive, arbitrary license changes or big corporate enshitification.

This seems to indicate that nearly nobody was using it, even counting the illicit activities of the multiple appliance vendors.

If I have a modest lab automation with solid bracketing of fw release versions on some network scenarios, I could easily account for thousands of on-install telemetry entries per week.

I can imagine Hetzner alone would account for thousands upon thousands of installs.

Just based on their phrasing, I doubt there will be a massive influx to opnSense.

I'm pretty happy with the experience and the end result.