How many people buy a brand new machine and the first thing they do is wipe it and re-install? Well, everyone who would sell their machine could go through tha

How many people buy a brand new machine and the first thing they do is wipe it and re-install? Well, everyone who would sell their machine could go through that process. And if this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204426) is correct then I would not call it an 'edge' case. Besides It's a safety feature. You need it to work when nothing else works. It should be extremely reliable. And if it's not then the only 'reliable' feature of the Mac you have is DFU mode and booting from another Mac. I don't personally know anyone who does that. I personally don't know anyone who dealt with failing computers who doesn't do that. Besides you need partitions for multi boot configuration.