I feel there are a lot of folks in MS that understand how important it is to have a consistent boot process. They tried to standardize this with the boot system

I feel there are a lot of folks in MS that understand how important it is to have a consistent boot process. They tried to standardize this with the boot system of Windows RT by having it map closely to that of BIOS. I think they just wanted to have ARM run like x86 by having a standard interface so they aren't building multiple different binaries for different machines. Of course this was basically bolting a good idea to an cement block dropped in the ocean, it didn't help that they had locked keys on secure boot so that users couldn't fiddle with this. A good idea done poorly.