It’s also lighter weight at its core, which is a big plus for servers.

Really? Busybox is more-or-less feature equivalent to a BSD userland (FreeBSD userland can be a bit more bloated, see the ls man page), but how many people have picked that up? Still using GNU coreutils, haha.

I saw many *BSD developers told Linux kernel developers to hang their work for a while and fix quality problems.