I am six months late to this party, but I am extremely excited about the potential in SCALE. The debian base will open up all sorts of possibilities for hypervisors and containers and perhaps provide a little more portability for these between other systems. The ready-to-go kube is also a big draw. Very nice guys.
I started dabbling with Freenas about two years ago, but quickly sidelined it, because of difficulty in connecting VMs to my highly VLAN-segmented home network, lack of ready-to-go docker engine, unfamiliar hypervisor, and personal unfamiliarity with ZFS & FreeBSD at large. I know my way around big boy virtualization, networking, storage and I am at least competent in linux server management...and it was still very difficult to get this working as it should (getting things working in bhyve especially was a painful experience).
Thanks to very helpful posts & guides from people like
@KevDog @Constantin and
@HoneyBadger, I am now getting it to do useful things for family and friends in two continents :) . It was all totally worth it, because I learned a lot, but it would be nice to see the 'cost-of-entry' lowered for basic users. I think TrueNAS scale is headed in that direction.