I honestly feel like this post is a plant -- it’s far too perfect. You’ve captured the exact 'cattle vs. pets' tension that kept some of my services on Linux for a long time, even when I really wanted them on FreeBSD.
Truth be told, I built daemonless.io because I'm bored to death of system administration. I love the FreeBSD kingdom, but I have zero desire to spend my life hand-cranking /etc files or manually patching 'pets' every time they drift.
The 'Jailer’s Trap' you mentioned is real; the second you jexec in to tweak a config, you’ve lost the battle for reproducibility. By bringing OCI-native immutability to Jails, you get that 'cattle' workflow—Podman-friendly, layered images, and reproducible environments—without leaving the kernel we actually want to live in.
Thank you for your attention, now let's get an other beer.
Next round is on me. Cheers!