Comment by JoshuaRLi

> Those who ship UEFI compliant systems which happen to suck are the bad guys.

This. The UEFI implementation on my XPS 13 9343 can't pass kernel command line, unfortunately. Ideally, I would have liked to boot straight into an EFISTUB kernel. Thankfully, there is rEFInd, which I boot as a secondary bootloader.