Maybe "cleaner" really means "more uniform", compared to the wide variety of Linux distros and their incompatibilities? Or like the word "intuitive", really just means "what I'm used to".
More uniform most likely. With FreeBSD can google some issue you’re encountering and the solutions you find are likely to be applicable, even with differing hardware, OS version, etc.
With Linux there’s been many times I’ll google some problem and the only solution that turns up is for distro Y which is mostly or entirely irrelevant to distro X that I’m running at the moment. This happens even with the big mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Fedora, but of course it’s worse with more niche ones.