But the systems already worked on Arm, that's the point! Getting more attention to the platform was definitely a good thing, exposing more people to a differen

But the systems already worked on Arm, that's the point! Getting more attention to the platform was definitely a good thing, exposing more people to a different architecture, to having a machine cheap enough to just play with, to all sorts of great stuff. But Linux and BSD themselves were already mature on arm by that point.