The motivation to run FreeBSD in a VM on my M1 MBP comes from being an active user of FreeBSD for a long time. For example my mail, web and VPN server runs FreeBSD. And I have been running FreeBSD both on desktops and laptops for a long time as well.

The motivation to make a guide for others to follow is that it should be useful for others too.

What I am saying is, when it’s useful for others it’s worth spending the time on writing up how to do it and share it with others.