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For BIOS/UEFI a lot of hardware vendors outsource their firmware to AMI and AMI keeps everything proprietary so they can keep charging money.

(Coreboot is not an option for real computers because it doesn't have menus and various other things.)

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I would assume that building an UI with menus and whatnot is the easy part of it? (not an expert, genuinly curious)

It may be that writing the code is the easy part but caring enough to actually start on it is the hard part. There's been no visible progress on this... ever.

Coreboot doesn't deal with that, the payload does. And tianocore does come with a menu for changing boot order, boot devices etc.

The stock edk2 menu has, like, two items.

System76 have built a more serious setup UI: https://github.com/system76/firmware-setup

Microsoft’s https://github.com/microsoft/mu also probably contains UI from the Surface line or something??

Aren't there coreboot payloads for doing menus/etc?

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