There’s a lot of value in being able to boot to a working state without your operating system needing explicitly seeded with intricate knowledge of the hardware

There’s a lot of value in being able to boot to a working state without your operating system needing explicitly seeded with intricate knowledge of the hardware. Not to mention the huge differences between proprietary vendor kernel device trees and mainline, so what the vendor supplies may be worthless. No matter how broken acpi etc is at least it’s compatible