I disagree. UEFI makes my life, as an end user, so much easier. The amount of times I've needed to buy a different flash drive because the BIOS of a particular

I disagree. UEFI makes my life, as an end user, so much easier. The amount of times I've needed to buy a different flash drive because the BIOS of a particular motherboard didn't like the way my existing flash drives smelled has gone down to 0. The thing even supports filesystems _not_ formatted by a tool written for Windows 95 that arranges the FAT partition in _just_ the right way to get it recognised. Previously, we had motherboards do the same stuff, except now they called into ROM memory on the network card, and ran a bunch of non-standard, proprietary code to render the fancy graphics and do online updating. I don't believe for a second that things were easier before UEFI standardised it all, they were just hidden from plain view better.