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> The bad reason for having an initramfs is because the Distro forces it upon you filling it with loads of unnecessary junk that can break\conflict hardware and stall the bootstrap.
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> If Red Hat had really been concerned with 'boot times' they would have done away with it.

I wonder if it's part of the hibernate compatibility with secure boot issue even
on a system with encrypted disks too. You would think you could just add some
authentication but it seems more complicated than that requiring TPM and such.