Yeah, the art students with miniscule coding experience who just want to get stuff done are probably going to be thrilled to work with FreeRTOS.
The truth is, that Arduino always has put in a lot of work to do things that could already be done only to make them more accessible, easier to use and thus more widely available.
If you think this is pointless you should consider this might say more about how far you have come in your own journey than about the usefulness of that new feature.
The art students with minimal coding experience would take FreeRTOS ten times out of ten over trying to figure out what a compare match timer is, what an interrupt is, how bitwise operations work, etc. The OP was dead-on and I'd bet money that the downvotes are from people that have never had somebody's eyes glaze over when they told them that they "just need to calculate their prescaler values, mask the appropriate bits into the config register, set the number of counts in the compare register, enable the timer interrupt, and register an interrupt vector to handle it".
The truth is, that Arduino always has put in a lot of work to do things that could already be done only to make them more accessible, easier to use and thus more widely available.
If you think this is pointless you should consider this might say more about how far you have come in your own journey than about the usefulness of that new feature.