I think it's impossible to tell because there's not enough people who are smart enough to prove that who care enough to do so AND who enough other people will believe. For example, half the people I ask consider Whonix dev Madaidan (and his thoughts on OpenBSD security: https://web.archive.org/web/20220227172102/https://madaidans...) to be wrong, while the other half think he's right. There's no majority consensus because everyone thinks they know better.
Madaidan is a bit of a mixed bag in my opinion — they are probably mostly factually correct in their statement about everything in my opinion, but it seems like they are deeply unfair to Linux (praising other OSes for things they've barely done and then criticizing Linux for barely doing those same things) and have fallen for the flatpak FUD. In the case of their opinion on obsd, I think they seem correct, and their opinion lines up with the other website criticizing obsd so there's that. But you're right, it's hard to know as a layperson.
