I think I figured it out!
Is someone willing to volunteer?
What I need you to do is setup a virtualized instance of TrueNAS, using a cheap "SATA multiport" card, with only 8GiB of available memory, and a RAIDZ1 vdev of 12 used laptop drives that you purchased from a shady seller on eBay. Make sure to mention it's a "gaming" motherboard with a built-in Realtek network card.
Start a new topic about how "TrueNAS sucks and runs really slow", while providing those specs.
Then the next day reply in your own thread that you've read
@jgreco's guides about HBAs, virtualization, and ZFS requirements. This inspired you to build yourself a new
non-virtualized system using a server motherboard, with 128 GiB ECC RAM, an Intel NIC, an HBA flashed to IT mode, with a pool of mirrored vdevs comprised of WD Red Plus CMR drives.
If
that doesn't reward you with a "thumbs up" from
@jgreco, then I'm all out of ideas...