You know what I'd really like to see? A desktop focused BSD distro that is easy to use as Ubuntu was in it's hayday (and arguably still is). Now that we see most hardware manufacturers allow for or even maintain open source drivers for Linux users I do not see why this is not a thing.
I'm an avid Linux user that has wanted to get into BSD and other Unix like operating systems but just can never muster the energy and time and patience to build a BSD system from scratch. IMO the potential from BSD is greater than Linux but the effort to create easy to install and use BSD desktop systems is just not there.
NetBSD/amiga 1.0 was my first unix. It was much harder to install, update and admin than most contemporary OSes, but, wow, it was multi-user and open-source before the term open-source had been popularized.
Years later, when I switched to Linux, I was surprised by how much more usable it was. Early Linux distributions put effort into enabling color ls, virtual consoles and readline. Then came package installers, etc.
The BSDs lagged behind Linux in usability because they kept focusing on other aspects of operating system design, dismissing things like graphical installers as unnecessary frill. "man tar" was the canonical advice.
New users getting stuck in the middle of the installation procedure were being welcomed by the BSD community with internal jokes like "RTFM!" and "man man". Development mailing-lists were also filled with comments ridiculing Linux as bloated (due to having bash with readline as /bin/sh) and not a real UNIX (due to not being a direct descendant of the AT&T sources). Not to mention all the attacks on the GPL and GNU as not being sufficiently free.
It was a cult, essentially. Hopefully the BSD community has grown up since then, but it has already lost most of the mind share to Linux and macOS, which is arguably the only usable BSD desktop available to users who couldn't figure what to do with the "man man" advice.
I think that you will greatly appreciate the desktop distribution helloSystem : https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/index.html. From their own documentation : "[.…] desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac. FreeBSD is used as the core operating system."
PC-BSD and to a lesser extent DragonFlyBSD do that. But there's just not enough people willing to put the work in (and in fairness why should they?).
FWIW I found installing FreeBSD pretty straightforward as soon as they started supporting normal disk partitions. It's closer to Slackware than Ubuntu, but that's also the appeal of FreeBSD - it doesn't have a whole lot to offer someone who wants something automagic like Ubuntu IMO.
I'm an avid Linux user that has wanted to get into BSD and other Unix like operating systems but just can never muster the energy and time and patience to build a BSD system from scratch. IMO the potential from BSD is greater than Linux but the effort to create easy to install and use BSD desktop systems is just not there.