the fact that BSD heads keep pointing out "the rate of pointless change in BSD is way lower than it is in Linux" as a selling point when I keep pointing out (to relative normies) the same thing for using free software in general, is not lost on me.

ipchains ➡️ iptables ➡️ nftables, for example, and a sizable portion of firewall shit is still accomplished via iptables plus some kind of undoubtedly horrifying translation layer. this isn't what I would call "good."