Actually I believe this is the smart way to "fix" the problem.

We could even imagine building those tiny VMs based on bsd-hardware.info for popular hardware profiles.

Keep FreeBSD small and clean, focus on innovation and performance, leverage virtualization and the good work done by Linux devs.

Then, if we get decent podman support I am more than happy.

The problem is that this only works if your hardware supports emulation and you can actually use PCI pass through - for USB devices, you'd need to pass the whole USB hub, for example.