This doesn't seem all that surprising. As a matter of fact, such thoughts have went through my mind a couple of times when I was about to publicly post some pictures of mine with a close enough view of the fingers (e.g. holding various objects etc).

I was actually thinking of the opposite trend since a couple of years ago: even people fully capable of running their own mail servers are all using gmail these days; I think we're easily at the breaking point where noone really knows how to run a mail server anymore.

What a whole lot of people seem to want from LibreSSL is to behave in every little bit EXACTLY as OpenSSL does, even though OpenSSL itself is a complete and utter mess.

OpenSSL allowed developers to interfere with RNG, so LibreSSL must do that, too?

Well, you can't really go at improving and cleaning up the library if you have to keep all the old bugs and the whole crusty API around.

It's inconceivable to expect LibreSSL to be both better than OpenSSL, yet to have the exact same API and the exact same set of bugs and nuances as the original OpenSSL.

What they're trying to do is be a simple-enough replacement of OpenSSL for most modern software out there (possibly with some minimal patching of the outside software), and not a one-to-one drop-in-replacement for random edge cases.

Awesome! Another good test would be building pkgsrc on top of LibreSSL, with no signs of the original OpenSSL present.