[Cu3PO42]

I agree that it should be enough. On my setup using the UEFI boot manager is much more annoying than it should be, though.

I have configured password protection for my UEFI settings (so that a potential attacker could not easily disable Secure Boot, for example) and GIGABYTE's UEFI implementation requires that password for the boot manager as well. In other words, when booting using this setup, I need up to three passwords: 1. UEFI password, 2. Disk encryption password, 3. User password.

Hence I use systemd-boot to set BootNext and reboot into the Windows boot loader.

Another reason for having a bootloader is that you may have more entries than the built-in manager can handle, for example if you can boot into automatic snapshots.