Why are you singling out a three-year-old release? TrueNAS has never been able to do this without iX hardware. Neither has FreeNAS. So for you to suggest that this is something that changed three years ago is frankly bizarre. And I’d argue that it’s impossible (not just difficult, impossible) to do so on arbitrary hardware–and that’s coming from someone who’s put some work into making it happen on some hardware.[1],[2] But I’d love to see code proving me wrong. I’ve suggested a method that would likely work with a bit of user input, but I don’t believe it’s possible to do it automatically.[3]
And I’d argue similarly regarding a “simple-human-friendly overview of hardware health in your system.”