[lvncelot]

It's somewhat endearing that a trillion dollar company goes through something similar as I did - fiddling around with rEFInd, my BIOS splash image, plymouth-git & plymout-sddm, "quiet splash" and god knows what else to get a "smooth" boot experience - not only adding several seconds to the boot process but also having to rescue the system multiple times with a boot stick.

I've come to embrace the flicker and the systemd messages. It's just a boot, it's in the order of seconds in this day and age, I can't even tell you what the initial reason for my obsession was.