I'm not sure being dismissive or judging from only one metric is big picture thinking. Some may even call it narrow mindedness.
A quick Google search would show many interesting aspects of the BSDs and especially NetBSD, from resource efficiency to keeping the "original" Unix alive on current hardware, but I suspect you may not the kind of person to be receptive to that.
Depends, for some older chipsets it was there, for me, then. Though I have to concur, that is annoying, when your's is much too new, and thus badly supported, if at all.
> ...shady Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support
I'm a caveman and really don't care about that. Not even under Linux :-)
That sounds all really complicated and time consuming, but at the times it wasn't. Because the base is smaller, the compilers were faster. Expecting it to perform out of the box without adapting it to the environment will lead to frustration.
A quick Google search would show many interesting aspects of the BSDs and especially NetBSD, from resource efficiency to keeping the "original" Unix alive on current hardware, but I suspect you may not the kind of person to be receptive to that.