One of the things I've learned in my 2.5 decades in this industry is that products/platforms which have a long history of defying gravity will generally continu

One of the things I've learned in my 2.5 decades in this industry is that products/platforms which have a long history of defying gravity will generally continue to do so. Generally, the longer something has been out and about, the longer you can expect it to continue to be out and about. There are exceptions to this, but they generally occur slowly (e.g. Perl, PHP) and the trendline is obvious for years, and it only asymptotically approaches obsolescence. OpenBSD and FreeBSD, afaik&afaict, are not on such a trendline at all. Which isn't to say they are immune from ever entering such a trend! But they'd be starting from a relatively steady state, despite what (probably false) intuitions about the supremacy of other options might seem to dictate. I would predict we'll be having this conversation again and again, long into the future, as we've been already having this conversation for about twenty years. And the answer will still be: BSD is just fine.