It would actually make quite a bit of sense to just have raw flash accessible by the CPU and be managed completely by it. The problem is then that some of the f

It would actually make quite a bit of sense to just have raw flash accessible by the CPU and be managed completely by it. The problem is then that some of the flash trickery is for very specific flash and requires careful calibration, things like programming time which is per-flash chip and sometimes also changes across time. The ONFI standard only specifies the protocol and the wiring but not the soft parameters, these may be added in there if people wanted but the flash companies are evidently only trying to grow up into the market rather than just provide building blocks as that allows them to squeeze out more profits so I can't see any incentive by them to expose such an interface and support the ecosystem that will spring up and take all of their extra profits and leave them to build massive foundries for peanuts per unit.