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The why is simply: because nobody wants it enough to build it. Otherwise it would exist.

Why does it have to? Why does everything have to supper everything? Why can’t a project have a focus on servers and that’s its “thing”?

Also it’s OSS — contribute that support if you’re so passionate about it.

The original, unedited version of the grandparent was bemoaning the lack of vendor support behind FreeBSD so the parent's comment made a lot more sense in-context.

Yeah, sorry for removing that part. Changed my mind just minutes after posting, because I really like FreeBSD any my critique sounded a bit too harsh.

> everything

Firstly, FreeBSD already supports x86 Mac Minis. Servers? M-series Minis and Studios are very good servers. Lastly, FreeBSD has an Apple Silicon port which has stalled.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon

I'll ignore your last point.

FreeBSD has always been the non-portable one.