sounds like the core of the issue was that Netgate hired a weirdo, and then botched how they handled it when the weirdo got -- go figure -- weird.
and it showed how FreeBSD does commits badly and may not have any (or few) code reviews
honestly makes me feel bad about using netgate boxes -- what else needs to be fixed?
And WIPO had to take the domain away from them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense#OPNsense