Can you clarify what you mean by "underhanded and unfortunate way?" The thread I can see on freebsd-hackers@ had a little feedback, including some very valid critiques (the code was developed against 9.x, then ported to 10.x without testing, at a time when 11 was CURRENT) and the original author just didn't follow up at all:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-Nov...
But maybe I'm missing something?
See also: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Sep...