Yes they could also redesign the whole product for a few ppl who will plug it into an old PC that still uses vga or an old server that has no IPMI.

You realise how big the VGA connector is relative to the product?

Cant you just use a dongle?

TLDR, the developers of pfSense are not the nicest people sometimes. If this bothers you, consider checking out OPNsense.

So first the author is arguing around on the router section that you should not buy a cheap router but then goes for pfsense instead of opnsense, i understand that when you are used to pfsense that you may not want to switch but recommending it for new ppl is just stupid. They have shown their hostality against their OS community in the past see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13615896

Those attacks you see are mostly (close to 100%) harmless bots, scripts. Yes they are trying default passwords and exploits that got patched years ago.

If you do not use default credentials and do run up to date software there is nothing to worry about.

Even brute force attacks are rare.

This is just “noise” so to speak.

If you are scared by this, you should reconsider hosting something on the internet. Yes things like fail2ban can help but only if they knock on your server multiple times and mostly only to keep your logs clean.