Comment by lmm

> And ACPI is, sure, a reasonable language for expressing most of that work. But... no one does the work![1]

Maybe. Or maybe the "work doesn't get done" in part because that interface language is simultaneously overengineered and underspecified, and people who start out with the best of intentions end up drowning under a pile of incomprehensible ACPI docs and copy and pasting whatever junk seems to make Windows handle it ok because that's the only way out of the nightmare.