The root of the issue actually appears to be that OpenBSD still supports extremely old and slow architectures (that struggle to build itself): alpha amd64

The root of the issue actually appears to be that OpenBSD still supports extremely old and slow architectures (that struggle to build itself): alpha amd64 arm64 armv7 hppa i386 landisk loongson luna88k macppc octeon powerpc64 riscv64 sparc64 For a project with such limited resources as OpenBSD, it seems wise for them to drop support for a large number of these legacy platforms and focus on more widely used architectures. I understand that, supporting more architectures actually help uncover more bugs. But you could still do that with a supported platform list that is 1/2 that size. https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html Look at what DragonflyBSD has been able to accomplish, truly competitive with Linux regarding performance and features, with the smallest development team out of all the BSDs. They can do this in large part because they focus on only 1 platform (supporting arch64).