The problem with that is that it doesn't work. People will buy the cheap broken hardware and then complain that Linux doesn't work. That's basically how it is a

The problem with that is that it doesn't work. People will buy the cheap broken hardware and then complain that Linux doesn't work. That's basically how it is already. I'm pretty certain ACPI is supposed to be at least one part of such a "hardware state layer" already, but as far as I know broken implementations are more common than functional ones.