I found it to be a coherent argument that is aptly summed up in the end:
You can think of the problems as something one may have had trying to run RedHat on a computer with a winmodem back in 1999. It’s not an OS that gets out of the way allowing you to get stuff done. You need to enjoy making it work for you. Otherwise, all you will find is annoyance and a swift OS change.
Far from it, matches my personal experience. I have a maxim saying "no BSD on my machine" coming from days when no Linux/Unix was really ready for the out-of-the box experience; it was all a lot of fumbling and guessing and tweaking before you got a running system. Even then BSDs stood out as being always the one that got that extra remark in how to compile a given piece of software.
I actually lifted the ban for a number of Hack- and real Mcintoshes, only to, of course, discover that a bajillion of tools are ever-so-slightly different in their behaviors from the resto of the world, a.k.a. Linux.
BSD on your home machine means you can say hello to a seemingly endless series of special-casing and make-do solutions. Nope, not me.
Anyone is free to tell me why FreeBSD at all when we have Debian, Mint, whatever; it is extremely unlikely any of those arguments will make me try this thing again tho.
You can think of the problems as something one may have had trying to run RedHat on a computer with a winmodem back in 1999. It’s not an OS that gets out of the way allowing you to get stuff done. You need to enjoy making it work for you. Otherwise, all you will find is annoyance and a swift OS change.