[rollcat]

IMHO good riddance. The VGA console is about as useful as the serial console - your escape hatch when everything else fails. If you're allergic to X11/Wayland, the framebuffer console is much more featureful (it displays cute penguins in the top left corner!)

But (again, IMHO) you can also just run alacritty in cage or a patched dwm. Comes useful when somebody sends you a cat picture.

[wruza]

Don’t we all love it when the escape hatch only opens halfway.

[jwilk]

There's no scrollback on fbcon either.

[rollcat]

Either way, bike shedding. The serial console doesn't have "native" scrollback either - it must be provided by your own terminal emulator.