You and 4 other guys are moving things from Linux to FreeBSD.
The rest of the world is moving things from UNIX and Windows to Linux.
CentOS-7 rebuild RHEL sources and most all of the "important" Enterprise Linux things are moving to RHEL.
RHEL runs the stock exchanges, the banks, etc.
Free BSD is fine and people can use it if they like ... but if you want real Enterprise grade software, it needs to be RHEL based, that is just the way it is.
Keep in mind that EL 7.0 is a 'dot zero release' and some of the features need work. It works for the majority of use cases, but some features will need to be enhanced, and Red Hat will enhance it. When they do, we will build the source code and it will be in CentOS.
I hear you Johnny, I'm a big RH fan, but there is several things that they have shifted to in RHEL 7 that just chafes a little.
I am dual hat guy, network and IS and when iptables with firewalld, at a minimum I would like the ability to be able to accomplish the same things I accomplished with iptables. I read about firewalld the pros and cons and I understand the shift and reason.
But I do have heartburn when they call something a "firewall" and you cannot drop all the packets. It's not like they didn't know about it since I read about it in fedora and it's not clear if it will be addressed. There are lots of use cases where I want to control all of the packets coming and going from a box, I see this becoming more so moving forward.
Hopefully this will be addressed in a future release, trying to figure out where I can go to now and keep up to date with the latest firewalld info, just to stay clued in.