I won't lament the loss of giant, stretched-out consoles that flash by too fast to do anything useful with either, but on the other hand I don't see why "there should be a way to make the text bigger" is a problematic request.

There are all sorts of disabilities that might necessitate a console with large text, and setting a specific size (in this case 80x25 because it used to be a standard) isn't such an outrageous demand.

The author knows a solution: set a specific resolution and select a specific font. The problem is that they can't pick that resolution, even though they could before, because on UEFI and non-amd64 the common GPU configuration parameters don't work in Linux.

We should default to a modern system, but the kernel should have a standard way of configuring the boot console. For every person who wants 80x25 mode, there's someone with a weird device that outputs three pixel high fonts because the default resolution is bugged, and both need the same override to fix their issues.

I have a related complaint about modern consoles: They are frequently unreadable, because they just have to use all the pixels. I booted Debian (IIRC) on a laptop with a 13" 4K screen and got something like 426x135 characters. No chance for me to read them, but there sure were a lot of them. My eyes aren't the best, but I think most people would find that unreadable.

Defaulting to 80x25 (or anything else reasonable) in an almost infinitely ugly font would be a vast improvement.

No, you can make large text (and GUI) much easier today. The author is just obsessed with one particular grid size.