It's eerily reminiscent of the x86 bashing that was going on in the early 2000s, only that in those days PPC was seen as the superior (new, baggage-free) ISA by Apple fanboys.

Then Apple switched to x86, and from day to night we witnessed the magnificent spectacle of the entire Apple fanbase performing a whiplash-inducing collective pirouette towards the narrative that, after all, x86 was not so bad.

SBBR and EBBR standardize the Arm booting process, but unfortunately many vendors just don't care.

yea but x86 booting isn't exactly the bastion of quality. im glad doesnt have standardized boot process. there are too many specialized versions out there of course

>but eg. Arm doesn’t even have a standardized boot process.

ARM did not. There are efforts but they are recent, adoption is bad.

RISC-V, on the other hand, put significant effort into this early on, preventing the situation ARM is in.