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You left off the following bullet point:

* NetBSD technically did it first

* But OpenBSD is the one who engaged with the rest of the software community to fix bugs that were uncovered

Now it doesn't seem so backhanded.

Well I think actually NetBSD just made less noise about it. You can call that "engaging with the community", and it can be helpful but since NetBSD switched in 2012 it was not the case that there was no engagement in making software work if it needed fixing.

The thing is to ask and poke pre-emptively before problems actually occur.

And if they didn't mention it others would be here complaining that NetBSD did it first and OpenBSD is just trying to take credit.

And they will copy UBC, uvm locks, WAPBL, device abstraction layer. Just diff their kernel source to 4.3BSD and compare how close they are still. Their kernel is still stuck in the 80s.

I was born in the 80s. I'm not stuck there...

Actually this is not quite right. Pkgsrc pushes fixes upstream for all breakage, including the 64bit long long time_t. We just weren't born on third base thinking we scored a triple.