Comment by jeroenhd
1 hour ago
Your computer's awful implementation says nothing about UEFI as a whole, it just means that the vendor you bought your hardware from sucks at writing firmware. I update my UEFI from the standard fwupdmgr command in Linux and it maintains the standard bootloader. In fact, unlike BIOS, it allows me to select a bootloader on startup if I want.
The absolute hackery that was necessary for BIOS to do something as basic as booting an operating system was due for removal. And looking at the rest of the bootstrapping landscape (ARM phones, Linux routers, you name it), I'll take UEFI over any of its competitors any day of the week.
Unfortunately, there's plenty of vendors that suck at writing firmware, and most usually give up on updating it immediately after they've EOL'd the hardware revision. The hackintosh project mostly works by replacing the bugs from the vendor firmware into the bugs that apple expected from their x86 line of pcs.
If most vendors suck at writing firmware, it might be a problem with the spec though.