As a FreeBSD user, this does nothing to attract me. I dislike GNU+Linux because it feels like a hacked together mess; now they're going to add that poorly designed system to an even worse system? Count me out.
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Just for fun, here's a version of your quote from another perspective:
As a Linux user, FreeBSD does nothing to attract me. I dislike it because it feels like it's stuck in the 70's, with a mess of shell scripts for system and service management. Now with the SCO Unix compatibility layer they added something absolutely prehistoric to what already felt old. Count me out.
Also, how did you post this, is there a browser for FreeBSD now? ;-)
That's your opinion, and your certainly entitled to it. I value simplicity, and IMHO it's easier for me to wrap my head around FreeBSD than Linux. I've used Linux of course, but I consistently find that it (the userland, system configurations) violates the rule of least surprise. If Linux works for you, certainly use it. Just realize a lot of us UNIX guys aren't thrilled about Linux, and aren't going to be thrilled about this subsystem because we have different values than the Linux community.
And by the way, FreeBSD's init system solves a lot of the same problems that systemd solves, albeit in a more transparent fashion. Zfs is also great. FreeBSD users have enjoyed containers now for quite some time, and didn't need Docker to do it.
Your remark about the supposed antiquity of FreeBSD reveals a fundamental ignorance of its technologies and principles.