I always wonder ... why 'waste' so much time with cross-compiling #Linux when #FreeBSD [1] supports such 486 computer out of the box along with binary packages

I always wonder ... why 'waste' so much time with cross-compiling #Linux when #FreeBSD [1] supports such 486 computer out of the box along with binary packages even in latest to date 11.1-RELEASE version? [1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html