Even Grub isn't all flowery. I have a background of using what I think is now called grub-legacy. Then I ended up running Debian, with newfangled Grub. I needed to change some kernel parameter (IIRC) but all I could find was a mess of undocumented scripts which say "don't touch this". I don't know where the documentation went, and it seemed needlessly complicated to configure. Why couldn't I say
man grub and learn all I need about it? I had other issues with Debian, but the last straw was when during a routine package update it decided to install a new version of Grub.. and the next time, it wouldn't boot anymore. Why was it so complicated in the first place? Why did Debian have to fix it if it's not broken? Why did it fail to do it right? I don't know, I don't really care... all I know is that needless complexity and churn caused trouble, again.
So I'm no longer using Grub or Debian. And my bootloader is simple. I've installed it once, and never touched it afterwards. It's possible to configure it a little, but there's no need for it. So what if it has fewer features. It only needs to load the damn kernel... and it works. I'm happy.
