I mean sure, what benefit to us would it be to advocate for users to stay on a train we’ve already been messaging was not proceeding into the future. The 13.3 release in many ways was chance to test and see how many “die-hard” BSD folks would rather use an effectively defunct, but more updated FreeBSD build, mainly due to jail requirements. The answer was a paltry few, which shocked me as well. I thought I was low-balling the guess and it was still 5x smaller than what I thought at a bare minimum. Hindsight being 20/20, might be that the 13.3 train was unnecessary, but still glad we did it, since we were able to make that sunset decision with data and not just our assumption.
But I feel like we’re all just rehashing the same old argument now all over again. (Does this place have a bad echo?). Anyway, we’ve diverged a bit from the main announcement topic here. If folks want to repeat this in another thread feel free!