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That depends only on their own project goals. Retro computing is a thing too.

Yes of course. If your goals are retro computing, yes by all means go ahead and use retro technology.

That's my point though: today, BIOS is retro technology.

It's also good for learning. But I agree that most of today's basic OS dev learning should rather be done with UEFI and/or Virtio.