Why should he have to put in the effort to do something that used to be, and should currently be, trivial?
Its an aesthetic decision.
A car analogy is anyone who doesn't like tail fins on cars is too old to be driving and should go back to a horse. An architecture analogy is something incredibly cluttered looking like gothic or victorian architecture is the only way to design a house and anyone who wants clean modernist design is aesthetically wrong and should go away. Cars and houses are supposed to be ugly and pointlessly expensive and cluttered looking and anyone who disagrees is inherently wrong because, um, well just because they're noobs to cars and houses.
The advantage of freebsd is its design aesthetic is dramatically superior to the linux design aesthetic. Its devs have better taste in OS style. As a side effect that makes it easier to use and more productive and more noob friendly, but thats merely a side effect.
Its an aesthetic decision.
A car analogy is anyone who doesn't like tail fins on cars is too old to be driving and should go back to a horse. An architecture analogy is something incredibly cluttered looking like gothic or victorian architecture is the only way to design a house and anyone who wants clean modernist design is aesthetically wrong and should go away. Cars and houses are supposed to be ugly and pointlessly expensive and cluttered looking and anyone who disagrees is inherently wrong because, um, well just because they're noobs to cars and houses.
The advantage of freebsd is its design aesthetic is dramatically superior to the linux design aesthetic. Its devs have better taste in OS style. As a side effect that makes it easier to use and more productive and more noob friendly, but thats merely a side effect.