My $.02?
I think few people understand the format of the cmos file, and fewer still know how to change it to eliminate all the un-needed settings.
A very nice contribution for someone to make would be a new file format which people could understand. I don't have any good ideas in that area. The current format has the advantage of being very bit-efficient with the limited CMOS memory. But it's not much use if people are blindly cutting and pasting.
ron