[josteink]

> It's over-engineered, but so is ACPI (IMO To an even greater degree). Does anyone want to return to the old plug-and-play compatibility mess?

In my experience, those who like to rag on UEFI, for whatever problem they deem it to suffer from, are rarely interested in providing other options or solutions to the problems UEFI provenly solve.

[qwertyuiop924]

That's true of any piece of tech. The solution to C++'s problems didn't come from the people who avoided that language entirely, it came from Mozilla, who are up to their eyeballs in C++. People who hate Sexprs still haven't come up with a good replacement.

  They've got XML

Many of the people behind that were Lispers. And anyways, I said a GOOD replacement.

But yeah, the solutions to a problem with a system don't come from the people who hate its guts and won't touch it: It comes from people who use it, need its functionality, and need those warts fixed.