Agreed, fun to read. Spite driven development. Reminded me of that Asus ACPI issue that somebody went buckwild on last year, or when Tavis Ormandy decided that xterm on windows took too long to launch.

https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

https://cmpxchg8b.com/slowterm.html