Which is why the campaign for liberated firmware is so important. If motherboard manufacturers were committing work to a common project like libreboot then hundreds of eyes would be upon it and awful code that does this insanity would never enter official repos.

Linksys had this problem a few years back with their new line of "open source" routers - it took them months to clean up their awful internal coding styles to get patches accepted into DDWRT, and even then they were accepted on a compromise where DDWRT developers had to fix a lot of it to make it less of a security portability and readability nightmare.

These hardware vendors at all levels - storage controllers, chipsets, radios, and more all have absolutely no QA on their code and by being so extremely proprietary nobody can do anything about it, and not enough people care to speak with their wallet to changes these terrible habits.