At the very least I find it comforting that whenever I need to enter the bios on one of my thinkpad I get a snappy keyboard driven interface that barely changed in 30 years.
I'll take that anyday over that slow as hell mouse driven firmware horror Dell and HP have been producing for their servers and laptops.
The nice thing about UEFI is that the build-in "UI framework" means you can get UI from oproms this way as well.
It also means you can bypass the mouse driven monstrosities from at least Dell by booting with console on serial port (for example through IPMI) - and all the same options are available, in vt-100 compatible form.
What relief after finding a server where the base bios was fine, but the intel raid card had its own SVGA+PS/2 mouse requiring setup interface... The mad scramble for a mouse to add to crash cart...
I'll take that anyday over that slow as hell mouse driven firmware horror Dell and HP have been producing for their servers and laptops.