if they switch it will cause a lot of trouble at first. it’s used everywhere. some management software has .ssh/ hardcoded.

they can’t be automatically backwards compatible, because it would mean an alternate location for a authorized_key file etc, which is dangerous. so, hosts updating need to be checked and migrated. some people will be locked out.

however, after the initial chaos it should be fine.

Well yes, after breaking countless tools with repercussions possibly in the decade range, punching security holes in systems that were hardened with certain expectations (my head aches at the amount of “lol the admin didn’t restrict .config/ssh”) - after all this havoc we will have a native bsd server software that finally complies with a Linux desktop standard. I don’t see downsides to this.