Quoting Adam Borowski (kilobyte@???):

> There are cases when the old way had its merit -- but here, we have an
> equivalent of a car that needs to be started with a hand-crank.

This is an exaggeration by orders of magnitude. But you're certainly
entitled to your opinion.

> Then write just your desired resolution (or what else is wrong in your
> EDID). Or, better, set it at runtime.

You could do that. But tweaking a Xorg.conf.new file works, too.

> Now this is getting ridiculous.

I concur. Therefore, I'll ignore the rest.