I mean the actual kernel. But, you know, needs a killer feature people want to deploy at scale.

And like OpenSSH, due to the BSD licensing, it will be quickly be ported to other operating systems. Which is an advantage to us all, a great thing for humanity.

delusional every professional uses PuTTY /s

Of course they do. And what is that thing on the other side that Putty connects to for our professional friends in vast majority of cases?

...I was going to make a joke about Windows servers, but actually AFAIK Windows just uses OpenSSH for its SSH server so that kinda proves the point doesn't it?