UEFI is simply over-engineered.

wyldfire · on July 14, 2015

And yet traditional BIOSes reuse features, implementation and design from the dawn of personal computing. They strike me as an unreliable black art.

Bootstrapping computers is "hard" and there's a huge disincentive to breaking compatibility with operating systems' installation/bootstrapping.

I'm not sure if EFI/UEFI are ideal, but it strikes me as a net win.

RexRollman · on July 14, 2015

Without a doubt, the classic BIOS needed improvement, but we didn't need this. The situation reminds me of IPv6, which is also grossly over-engineered.