Sorry, but we have to dial the artificial anger and rhetoric down a little bit. There is ZERO evidence that Dell EMC was acting as a bully. There is zero evidence that this decision is bad. The claim of "days of asking" is irrelevant, as this forum is not where answers will be found, if any. The solution is not bizarre: a daemon is the standard solution for boot-related things (such as recording the OS version). Open source does not imply that every newbie on the forum has to be involved in decisions. And I see no parallels with wireguard. Nor was wireguard a fiasco, I would describe it as a typical example of schedule slip and project setback that happens in software engineering all the time. Finally, just to be clear: the party involved here is not Dell EMC (the whole company), but Isilon, a division of Dell EMC, and a heavy FreeBSD user and contributor.
Personally, I have no opinion on this change, and no horse in the race. But we need to all be a little respectful, and stop being so paranoid and self centered.